Dr. Niall Muldoon:

I suggest the Deputy is right. I am sure Ms Connolly from Barnardos will have more face-to-face information on this subject, but from my perspective I think the suggestion is correct. On the positive side, many more young people are body-aware and health-aware in respect of not smoking and not drinking and physically doing things. Many people who would never have done sport are now going to the gym. I think there is a move in that direction and that it is part of being environmentally, climate and personally aware and the sense that people need to look after themselves and that society is not going to help them. There are great positives certainly. I am involved with many teenage groups and I can see more and more of them are not drinking in the way they would have before. It is much less, and not on weekends but occasionally. This is anecdotal from my perspective but perhaps Ms Connolly might have a comment.