Mr. Dermot Sreenan:

We do not get the chance to be called in front of this committee very often, so I would like to take the opportunity to say to people that if they are getting these letters, when they open the letter, they should make a call to the MABS helpline. We are there to help, even though we are busy.

On a personal note, I am going to attend the funeral of a friend of mine who died in tragic circumstances. I have gone to a lot of funerals in the last three years. We had a celebration in Dublin Castle to celebrate 30 years of MABS. What I wanted to do was bring some of the testimony of the MABS clients, the interviews that happened and the audio clips from that. What came across is that MABS provides a life-changing service for people. We are there to lift the burden. Nobody should do this on their own. It is no exaggeration to say that it actually saves lives. With this opportunity, when we get to talk to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, what we would ask is that it would resource us to do that job.