Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion

Mr. John Conroy:

I will talk about our centre. We continuously review services on a year-to-year basis. Last year, we recognised that we were not meeting the needs of a cohort of the population, and this was just for our centre, which was children and young adolescents. We expanded our services in December 2023 to meet that need because it was something we were seeing, exactly as the Deputy said. We are also uniquely placed in that we are supporting children who may have a parent or sibling who has a diagnosis. We are able to provide a number of programmes, such as the children's lives include moments of bravery, CLIMB, programme, where children have an adult with a diagnosis, or play therapy as well. It is definitely a part of our service that we are seeing a growing demand. We are trying to meet that demand.

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