Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 14 June 2022
Joint Committee On Health
Addiction Services: Discussion
Ms Gwen McKenna:
It started up by the national family support network and the Garda Síochána. We have been doing this for a number of years. There are policies and procedures around it. We work with family members who come in to our peer support groups, or who ring us up and say they are being intimidated. We bring them in and work with the Garda Síochána. There is a designated Garda inspector for each area, so they come in and will work in the centre or in a neutral venue. We are always holding the family member. We do not deal with people who are caught up in addiction at all. That is where we are at. We are rolling out a pilot project which Ms McKenna will tell the Deputy more about as she is dealing with it.
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