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Oireachtas Cttee. Calls For Free Counselling For Everyone.

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The committee's also calling for a national campaign on addiction

An Oireachtas committee's calling for free counselling for all, and a new 24/7 emergency mental health service.

They're some of the recommendations in a new report, which will be published today.

Eoghan Murphy reports

Brendan Kelly, a professor of psychiatry in Trinity College Dublin, supports the call for universal free counselling

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