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- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: Mr. Church spoke of the increasing contacts in respect of mental and emotional well-being. He has mentioned suicide and self-harm but can he give us some examples of the issues that arise with children around emotional well-being and mental well-being?
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: Can Mr. Church flesh out the cause of the stress, anxiety and fear?
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: Can Mr. Church give us something more granular or an example of the narratives of that? I am trying to get to the heart of what it is like to be a child throughout this period.
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: The question is not a hostile question. I am interested in hearing what children were saying. I apologise for having missed the first 30 minutes of the meeting but the accounts being given are generalised. I am interested in hearing what is was like for children. I am trying to dig down into the examples.
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: How would an 11-year-old source the contact number and how might a conversation begin?
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: For those children who do speak, what might be an opening narrative?
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: Even as constituency politicians, I am sure my colleagues and I are aware of the impact of Covid on families and particularly on parents of children with special needs, whose environments were severely restricted in comparison with what they had been familiar with. The Barnardos representatives have said that we know children are among the groups most adversely impacted. How do they know that?
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: What I am trying to drill down into is that it may be too early to tell. I am trying to drive at the point that we just know this intuitively. Have we done any studies that demonstrate-----
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: -----that children have been more adversely affected by the Covid pandemic than other age cohorts? The reason I am asking these questions is that this has consequences for Government policy and, if it has consequences for Government policy, it informs the decisions we have to make as policymakers. That is why I ask that.
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: I am aware from my own constituency that the school meals programme plays a role. I know there were unsung and very busy deputy principals and other staff members ferrying those meals around during school days. To cut it short, I would be interested in seeing any of the reports that back those statements up, including that from the ESRI, which Ms Connolly mentioned.
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: I have a question for the ISPCC. It relates to e-therapeutic support. Will the witnesses elaborate a bit on that? How does a child access that? How do I, as a legislator, or any adult know that people cannot masquerade as an e-therapeutic support provider and that children will not find themselves straying into difficulty unknowingly? What safeguards are in place?
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: Briefly, how does that programme work? How regular are the interventions? Is it weekly or daily?
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: Is it an hour or two hours?
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: How do they access it? Is it on their telephone or is it-----
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: At home?
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: On that piece, how does the ISPCC-----
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: I am just wondering how a child finds a safe space for that or who finds the safe space for the child to engage.
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: Yes.
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: Mr. Church has answered the question anyway because of the route to it.
- Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)
John Lahart: It is not like Childline. I thought this was a service a child can log onto anonymously, but Mr. Church is saying the child is channelled to it either via Tusla, CAMHS or the HSE.