Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. I am aware that youth services held a meeting across the road yesterday. One of my staff members went over. As I was in a meeting, I was not able to attend personally. If the Deputy send me the details, I will have a look at them. He is quite right in what he said. Some young teenagers have emotional distress, anxiety or low-level mental health challenges that can escalate if they do not get the correct interventions. Work is up and running. I know organisations do extremely good work. Low-level counselling is important. I can talk to the Deputy offline about this.

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