Ms Joanne Condon:

Yes. As my colleague Ms Byrne pointed out, we have never had an increase to our advocacy resources since the inception of the service, yet year on year, the number of inquiries to our service has continued to grow, as have the number of cases we have worked, despite the fact we have not had an increase in resources. I mentioned earlier that the complexity of the work has also grown, so the pressure on the service is immense. The level of distress we hear advocates talking about only touches the surface of the distress experienced by those we are working with.