An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business Seanad Éireann — 2026-05-26 ============================================================ Nessa Cosgrove (LAB), Labour Panel I also say comhghairdeas agus bualadh bos to Seán Kyne. Go n-éirí an t-ádh leis ina phost nua. It is fantastic for him and I am delighted for him. I also wish Daniel Ennis the very best and congratulate him. I congratulate everyone who ran. It was a long campaign and everyone who ran needs huge credit for putting their name forward on the ballot paper. I was at a great report launch yesterday by the children and young people’s services committee, CYPSC, in Sligo and Leitrim. The report is on transforming youth mental health supports in Sligo and Leitrim. We heard from the CYPSC co-ordinator, but also from Comhairle na nÓg in Sligo and Leitrim. I will read out a quotation from the focus group. They are basically looking for an early intervention youth support facility for young people in Sligo and Leitrim: Young people in Sligo and Leitrim are struggling and we need support that actually helps us. It should not take months to talk to someone or feel like you’re fighting a system just to be heard. We want help that’s easy to reach, and when things start to feel overwhelming, not after when everything has already gone wrong. There are a lot of recommendations in this report. I know they have presented this report to the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. As it is driven by young people, there are recommendations on the services that are there. Jigsaw is in Mayo and Mindspace in Donegal and Roscommon. In all the surrounding counties, there are early intervention mental health services for young people. We do not have that in Sligo. A total of 270 people were identified for these focus groups. I think 223 of them were young people. It is in their own words saying that they need a space that is free, accessible and not just based in an urban town. It has to be based in rural areas as well. They asked for youth-friendly design, that privacy and stigma be addressed and for goal-oriented supports and access to a range of number of professions. We are very lucky in Sligo and Leitrim in that we have a lot of youth services and we have CAMHS. They need somewhere to direct people to. I know this from being a youth worker on the ground. There is nowhere to direct services. If a young person presents with a mental health need, we have nowhere to direct them. There is no one there. I hope the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, will take on board the recommendations in this report. --- 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/seanad/2026-05-26/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:54:59+00:00 Sitting date: 2026-05-26