Keira Keogh (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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I have two more questions. On the child's right to be heard, we are doing a good job to some extent in terms of the youth advisory panels we have in various organisations, including a couple of the Departments.

It was very interesting last week to hear from the former commissioner in Scotland, Bruce Adamson, around some of the work that he and organisations over there undertook regarding the voices of very young children, such as colouring. I have a background in disability. I worked with a lot of non-verbal children. What are the witnesses’ views on whether we are doing enough? Should we be doing more? How should we be doing it in terms of the very young voices or the disabled voices?