Thank you for your excellent bill, Mr. Regan.
I also thank Mr. Carrie very much for telling us what he went through at school.
Thanks also to Ms. Smith for telling us about your experience as a teacher when your students had seizures.
It all got me thinking about when I became familiar with epilepsy for the first time. I had never seen a case personally, but I remember that, 15 years ago, when I was young, I used to watch children's programs on television. Between the programs, there were awareness advertisements about epilepsy. One showed a schoolyard situation where a student had a seizure. We were shown what to do and what not to do. A young girl was in charge of the situation, she got lots of bad advice and replied that that was not what needed to be done.
But if more education is needed, the younger generation, people in their 20s like Anne and myself, are perhaps more aware of what must be done and what must not be done. So I think that the situation will get better. This bill will also help generations to come. As a society, I feel that we are getting better in this regard. That was my little story.
It has been said that epileptic seizures can be set off by an excess of visual stimuli, especially from light. Are there other triggers that we should know about, other risk factors that also cause seizures?