Ms Caron McCaffrey:

We have been taking a number of specific measures to assist our staff in dealing with the difficulties within the environment. We are rolling out a critical incident stress management policy which is in place in the Defence Forces and the fire brigade to help them deal with specific critical incidents, such as being injured, finding somebody self-harming or finding somebody who has committed suicide. We have introduced a free counselling service for our staff so they can now self-refer to that service and receive assistance in dealing with the stresses within the working environment. We are also rolling out some training with our psychology service on building resilience within our staff. This is certainly something we acknowledge and something we are specifically, under our new strategy, attempting to support our staff on.