Bereavement Counselling
Dail Éireann — 2023-02-16
============================================================

Mary Butler (FF), Waterford

I thank Deputy Smith. He is aware of Rethink Ireland, which is an organisation that funds various supports. Recently I visited the Solas Centre in Waterford. One of the programmes it runs is to provide information and supports for teachers in schools with a child in the class who has lost a parent to cancer or where a child has died of cancer. We have found this to be very effective. The Children's Grief Centre in Limerick is a very important initiative. The Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, works very closely with it and I believe she will have a positive announcement for it very soon with regard to capital funding. Pieta House also provides this type of support. I know the point Deputy Smith is making with regard to specific supports.
In one of the other areas, the counselling in primary care, CIPC, service supports are there but it is only if people have a medical card.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2023-02-16/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:51:35+00:00
Sitting date: 2023-02-16