Ms Orla O'Connor:

Taking the example of violence against women or domestic violence, there has been an increase in reporting and in some ways that is positive because more women are coming forward. It means that services are really under pressure. The work around cross-Border collaboration and working together is not resourced. Unless it is resourced and given time for, services will not have the time to be doing all this collaboration that they would want to be doing as well. While some of this is happening, our members say to us that they would want to do more but there are no resources for this work.

They are providing services and those services are already facing huge demand, particularly in that area. We were all talking about that dedicated piece. This needs focus and dedication. It needs to be resourced and to be feeding into something specific. We need to give time to this work as well as the actual service provision.