Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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I thank our witnesses for coming before the committee and thank them for their submissions and opening statements. I begin with a question for Dr. Muldoon on the English system and the mental health in schools team, MHST. It sounds interesting. The team has four mental health professionals working around schools with around 7,500 students in total. Is that right? Does Dr. Muldoon think that is feasible in Ireland? I was just doing some calculations. We have a primary school population of 560,000. We probably need 300 mental health professionals to fulfil that type of model. Is it feasible or in what way does Dr. Muldoon think we could run it here?