Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)

I have spoken at the committee in the past about the cliff edge young people face when they turn 18 or 19. Society hopes they will get a career, an apprenticeship or go to college, but many people who have been well supported by youth work, social work and CAMHS, and had many different agencies plugged into their lives, are suddenly and quickly unplugged from those agencies when they reach the age of 18 and are out in the big world. How unplugged do the witnesses' organisations feel when someone leaves youth and becomes an adult?