Dr. Carmel Corrigan:

----the school staff. They are not adjunct but are school staff. The final point I want to make is that the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child provided its concluding obligations on Ireland's adherence to the convention earlier this year. Mental health is an area on which the committee has stressed there is a need for urgent action. It is not just a set of conclusions; the committee requires urgent action. The UN committee identifies the issues that we have identified and that this Oireachtas committee has identified which include long waiting lists, children in adult psychiatric units, no supports in schools, a lack of services and of professionals and so on. All of those issues have been highlighted by the UN committee to the State as requiring urgent action. The framework is there. We have all of the recommendations.