Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Good morning. I thank the witness for her statement this morning. My first question surrounds someone who has been given a diagnosis of cancer. As for counselling and back-up, and the trauma someone has after hearing that diagnosis, is there any kind of model or intervention out there for someone to get counselling with his or her diagnosis? I had a very recent experience with a close friend of mine. There was a shortage of intervention in terms of the diagnosis they had been given and the counselling services to actually quantify what my friend had just been told.