Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion
9:30 am
Ms Aoife Bairéad:
Very quickly on that point, we are doing research into violence in our area. We got some funding to do that, which obviously will be localised but we hope it can offer evidence that can be offered further from there. On the turnover of staff, that is the same for DCC housing complexes, in that they often have very good relationships with the representatives there but again, because of a turnover of staff those relationships have to start again and again.
It is very frustrating for people who are really challenged in those communities where certain individuals are able to and are supported to live, despite continuing threats and intimidation to others. Of course, we are again back to the interdisciplinary issue which is that there are laws in place to protect people's housing rights, which is absolutely right, but other people in those housing complexes have rights too and that intimidation and fear is extraordinary in some areas. It seems to be incredibly difficult to move the dial at all in those conversations.
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