Dr. Niall Muldoon:

Unfortunately, it is a career choice. "Where am I looking and who do I look up to? I look up to the guys with fancy money." The fact we created a law for this shows how - endemic is not the right word - widespread it is. Those are the same areas which have DEIS schools but do not have DEIS support systems for the community. We need to start investing in and recognising if the child is in a DEIS area, the parents will need more help and support. We need to start moving that forward so we can prevent it from happening.

The other thing we never mentioned was a forensic medical unit for children and adolescents. The new Portrane central mental hospital has beds that have never been opened. Again, there are children who may fall into that system and because there is no forensic medical unit, may end up in Oberstown or in special care and be violent. Those are the sort of things we can join up. We created the system, put in the funding, created the beds and now we must invest in staffing. Those are the sort of things that can help.