Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge the Deputy's role, and that of Deputy Lowry and other colleagues, in raising the issues regarding Jigsaw. We established Jigsaw in Thurles and a commitment was given to extend a kind of hub-and-spoke model. The mental health budget last year supported Jigsaw to the tune of €14.5 million. It has 70% physical coverage in the country but has 100% online coverage. It has also made some changes to its model of care in how it provides its supports and has been looking at all its organisational roles to see how it can best support our young people. It told me when it was moving to expand supports from the hub-and-spoke model that it would be certainly be led by the demand it is seeing. I will raise the matter with it to see what kind of figures are coming through its offices from the Clonmel area and revert to the Deputy.

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