Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 November 2021

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Strengthening Prevention and Early Intervention Supports to Children and Families Post Pandemic: Prevention & Early Intervention Network

Photo of Mary Seery KearneyMary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Thank you very much Chair. I thank Dr. O'Dwyer for that opening statement, which I really appreciate. I am very struck by the statement that there are good policies in place, but it is about the implementation of those policies. We see reports like yesterday's drug task force report and the research done by the Tallaght drug task force, and it would be mirrored in the one I chair in Dublin 12. Poverty and adversity in childhood set in motion a whole sequence of events that affect aspirations, opportunity, and marginalise children and keep them marginalised. Knowing the current state of affairs, that we are coming out of a pandemic and have much catching up to do as a result of the pandemic and that some services are still lagging behind and waiting lists have increased, what three things would the witnesses pick to prioritise and have us do if they were the Minister?

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