Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As Ms Duggan shared, perhaps the new workers will be able to have a role and we can have some creativity about them having one. My only thing about that though, when it comes to what Ms Mpofu shared and other stories that I know of, is that workers go home. It is a bit like your child in the crèche. There is only so much you can complain about because you are afraid that your child is there on their own – but I have never had to complain about a crèche. There is a certain vulnerability. How do you complain and raise issues when you are living in the situation and you are quite powerless? We need some mechanism to overcome that. Again, with Dr. O’Dalaigh’s 16-year-old, we need some mechanism to overcome where people are disempowered and have a problem-solving intervention on a nuts-and-bolts level.