Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 June 2022

Joint Committee On Health

Addiction Services: Discussion

Ms Gwen McKenna:

I would love to see us embedded into the community. There are volunteers at the top and the management level providing services and it should be safe to move over and let new people come into funded positions. They would still be part of the organisation and driving it. It is specifically for families. We should be able to keep that suite of services that we have for families the whole time.

I would want us to have the same programme, support and supervision and the facilitation of our continuum of care. The Chairman spoke about burnout. All our fundraisers who did Trojan work last year are burned out this year and we have no fundraisers left for this year. I would like our services to be embedded in the community and to be funded properly in order that we can do this work. Our programme can be rolled out nationally. I think it will take on a life of its own. It will move along in that way.

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