Ms Sin?ad Harris:

We can see how that could work. We are always taking about this in north Clondalkin. When Jigsaw was involved, it started a conversation around mental health within the community. The Jigsaw people were in the schools and the conversation was happening. However, they were not really meeting the needs of the young people with whom we were dealing. We would send them over and the Jigsaw people would make a telephone call and then send them off somewhere else or send them back to their GP. These young people are dealing with trauma and bigger issues than relationship breakups, fallouts with parents or whatever. While it was a good service, it did not really meet the needs of those young people. If someone based within a youth service two or three days a week is on hand at the crisis intervention level meeting, engaging with the young people where they are at and while they are in that crisis, it would be life-changing.