Ms Carmel McDonnell Byrne:

I agree. We have different generations attending our centre. We can see where the problem is between the parent and child because they have not disclosed too much about their experience. There is shame and they do not want to go into the detail because once you regurgitate it, it becomes very real and live. We also have survivors who just want it gone. Unfortunately, when people leave an institution, it haunts and stalks them for the rest of their lives. It often catches people off guard. A film or something could bring back a memory and people are then thrown back into what happened to them. It affects the people around them. We have thought about the best way to go forward. We need to continue with services similar to what we have in the centre. We are offering education, because that was important to the late Christine Buckley.

In the early days when our centre was operational just down the road in Jervis House, people had difficulty with prescriptions. Their children were marginalised and not encouraged to progress in the education system, which meant they could not read and write. Things went further down. We encouraged those children to come into the centre and to take up some of these-----