Dr. Carmel Corrigan:

If I may, Chair, we had a policy discussion forum between our youth advisory panel and senior policymakers in January of this year, where the HSE was very clear on its increased investment in the area of child and adolescent mental health and very clear on the additional funds and resources going into it. One of the young people said that while the money may have been spent, it is not reaching them. That is what children are saying; it is not reaching them. There is something in the way.