Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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I thank Ms Ní Sheaghdha. I apologise for cutting across her but we are quite over time.

I thank Ms Murphy for outlining that post-traumatic stress disorder is a very serious clinical psychiatric condition and requires appropriate and urgent supports to try to help people through what can escalate and become a very difficult condition. Appropriate diagnosis at the earliest stage is key.

I thank her for outlining her experience so far. That phrase is also used too easily when it is a very specific clinical psychiatric diagnosis. It is very important that those at risk of acquiring it through trauma or developing it in the future get the correct diagnosis and treatment at the earliest stage in order that it does not escalate. I thank Ms Murphy for highlighting that.

I call Deputy Shanahan.