Mr. Hugh Doogan:

While Ms Riordan addressed the matter of parents in the opening statement, and they are obviously the primary educators and carers, one of the big elements of the Changing Lives Initiative programme are the professional information and awareness workshops. This relates to the point made regarding many of the teachers and early years educators.

We invite both teachers and early years educators into these sessions because their awareness and understanding of what ADHD is and what it is not is quite low, as it would be with people across the population. We have been struck at the demand from schools and early years service for those places, so much so that teachers will go to a three-hour workshop on a Saturday morning. There is definitely a need for professional development and capacity building for our educators, both in primary school settings and early years services.