Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I fully concur with the Deputy's comments on the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. She has been doing a fantastic job and we really are putting women's health front and centre. We launched a strategy document approximately three weeks ago and every Member should have received a copy in his or her pigeon hole by now. I encourage colleagues to take a look at that strategy, which takes a whole life cycle approach to women's health for the first time. Obviously, part of that is mental health. We are looking very specifically at mental health supports for girls and young women, for example. As part of the national listening exercise, perinatal mental health came out as one of the big unmet needs. I am delighted that the new perinatal mental health teams are now being put in place, which is revolutionary. I was in Galway recently where I met a full, brand new team that includes psychiatry, psychology, social work and therapeutics. It is an amazing team, all of whom are women, as it happens. It is fantastic to see that this is now being built out and making a real difference to women's mental health.

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