Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 June 2025

Committee on Children and Equality

Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children

2:00 am

Photo of Grace BolandGrace Boland (Dublin Fingal West, Fine Gael)
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On issues around mental health and disability, we need to see therapies much earlier. What can happen is children become disengaged and disenfranchised from the school system and from authority. It also affects their self-worth, their self-confidence and their mental health. That only creates societal issues. Apart from having more therapists, which we are all agreed on and we hope we will see, what else can we do to support parents and children?