Mr. John Church:

I wholly support the Deputy's comments. From the perspective of the ISPCC, I do not think anybody would disagree that education is very important. Recently the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy McHugh, spoke of having well-being as part of the junior cycle.

All these buzzwords like "well-being" and "resilience" are becoming part of our language. In our experience, it is best to intervene or to tick the prevention box and get in early in primary school. We run a small number of group resilience training activities. We do not have enough funding to do more. I was at one in Cork recently. It was fantastic to see young children talking about these issues in a group situation. It is vital to reach eight to 12 year olds. I am unsure how many members of the committee remember the old health promotion videos in schools but they stopped me taking up smoking. They ran back in 1975 and 1976. When I saw those videos, I did not want to smoke. We need to get into schools and start doing the equivalent with resilience. That is what we are all about with Childline. We listen to children but we do not direct them. We help them to build resources around themselves. Children nowadays are not as resilient as many were years ago. We need to intervene early and help to teach them.