Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 June 2022

Joint Committee On Health

Addiction Services: Discussion

Ms Gwen McKenna:

That is brilliant. My biggest wish is to take people with addictions out of the hospital setting and put them into a unit dedicated to them. That way, families would not have to go into the waiting area and be stressed out and hurt by the reception they get. If families cannot control the person who is with them, they get the flak. The whole thing is just chaos. Our wish list is for a unit for people who are very badly affected by these issues, so they can be brought into another unit dealing with both the medical and mental part of it and separated altogether from people who have other issues.

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