Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth
Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion
2:00 am
Joe Conway (Independent)
Is it not very subjective? A lot of these human conditions are self-descriptive, so one 15-year-old describing themselves as being lonely might have a completely different presentation from another. Is it very difficult to get a handle on an umbrella term like loneliness. It seems like an immensely depressing handle to throw at the youth of Ireland, that they are the loneliest people in Europe. They may be self-describing and it is subjective.
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