Jigsaw is a youth mental health charity that provides free, non-judgmental and confidential therapy to young people between the ages of 12 and 15. It also gives families, educators and those who support young people's mental health ways to cope and the skills to be there for young people. Thankfully, after pressure from public representatives, this service was established successfully in County Tipperary, based in Thurles, and has been up and running successfully for a number of years. A commitment was given to establish an outreach centre in Clonmel. A totally inadequate token one-day-a-week service is available in Clonmel, which one of the biggest towns in the country. I ask the Minister, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, and the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, to follow up this matter and provide the resources necessary to establish this service properly in Clonmel.

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.