Mr. Paul Reid:

We had presentations from many family members who have been impacted and they shared their experiences. They were quite powerful, and they were from all parts of society in terms of the impacts, their capacity to get into the addiction services and the impact it has on the family, which can cause awful carnage within the family itself. We had presentations from kinship care, putting families into care and supporting families in terms of caring for children, and they were quite powerful presentations. We felt this is kind of a hidden issue that is probably not resourced or spoken about to the levels need. Again, there were good little islands of excellence of community groups but they were not really on the radar from a wider statutory perspective.