Ms Mary Roche:

When people get involved in this system, especially poorer people or people with literacy issues, it is very daunting. As the Deputy said, they are suspicious of the State and the agencies, so it adds trauma. A service that works would be properly resourced, professional at every level, and child and family-centred to support people to get resolutions. It has to be resourced. Communities and childcare have to be funded. The labour market has to be accessible to women who are parenting on their own. Fathers have to have access to their children. It is a whole suite of issues relating to properly resourced and funded public services.