Ms Tanya Ward:

It is already a national policy under the first five strategy. A team of people is working on it. It is just taking them longer than it should. No doubt, Covid intervened in any of the health responses. Everything was delayed by a number of years but the committee could talk to that team, which is in the Department of Health. The HSE and the Department of children are working on a proposal. That strategy runs out in three years' time. We would love to see that service established by then. Every child in the country should have access to it. It is critical. All of this work happening on the education side has to happen on the health side as well.