Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I again thank the Minister for the positive response. Several of the recommendations of the Children's Mental Health Coalition highlight this sort of thing as being critical to helping young people with those issues. They include the need for more mental health promotion, for capacity of the primary care sector to increase accessibility of child and adolescent mental health services and for local alternatives to inpatient services. Again and again the coalition underlines the need for that accessibility for young people in particular. Every schoolchild has a homework journal so if we could progress the proposal and the information was there in front of them it would be a huge contribution to supporting vulnerable young people when they get into difficulty and ensure there are no obstacles or stigma attached to accessing the services of Pieta House. I look forward to working with the Minister to progress the issue, which I hope we can do together.

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