Mr. Mick Williams:

People are recovering in the community. The community needs to recognise this. It is sometimes said that communities cannot deal with mental health issues but people can recover in their communities. This is the model we want to get to.

Ms McGillivary spoke about yearly contracts. We do not know whether we will face cuts or whether we will get extra money. We do not know anything. We just know on the day. This cannot continue. We need to be in a place whereby we know we have at least the same amount of funding as we did the previous year. We have to project what we do. We have to project our budget. We have to know whether we can take someone in as a peer worker and fund this with a certain amount of money so we can run our programmes. We do not have this. We do not have this confidence or security. We are extremely creative people but we want to be recognised for our creativity. We want to be recognised in a way that our funding is secure to give us the confidence to know we can take in an extra ten people with a dual diagnosis. As I have said we are not ill-equipped to work with people. I would like to know what the access criteria will be for the proposed dual diagnosis service. What will be different? How is it proposed that I would work with addiction only without dealing with mental health issues? I do not know how to do that.