Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Offaly, Fine Gael)
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I want to say that mentalhealth.ieis an excellent website. It is a marvellous first point of contact. We all have a responsibility to try to highlight, in terms of parents who might be concerned about their children or anybody who is a bit below par, the fact that there is a great deal of information available. I very much welcome that and will certainly promote it. Do the witnesses find that that type of technology is a good way of accessing the general population in terms of trying to help them almost in their own homes because things have changed to a huge extent? I was talking to a parent recently who gave me an example of her child who was connecting with the counsellor online. That was marvellous because the parent did not have to drive the child somewhere, and they were able to connect. That is a tremendous step forward in terms of efficiency and all sorts of cost savings, as well as benefit to the individuals.