Ms Eileen Weir:

Okay. The trauma thing comes in many shapes and forms. What I am noticing, and I am not the only one who is noticing this because I have spoken to some of my colleagues in the rural parts of the North because we are a network stretching right across the whole province, is that the women from 43-plus have really been left behind. These were the women who lived through the 30 years of the conflict and who suffered most of the trauma.

There seems to be a concentration, which does need to happen too, on our young people. I am all for our young people as well and money being invested in them. I am talking about investment and not just funding. I am sick of hearing about funding. I ask that we be invested in and that there be investment in the past 40 years and the work we have done. These women now are of an age where they are still suffering from trauma but there does not seem to be any investment in this age group any longer. It is a bit like what is being said is we should forget about those who went through it all, who suffered the most and who are the ones transferring that trauma and we should concentrate on our youth. While I still think we need to concentrate on our youth, these youth are in homes that have been affected by trauma.