Mr. Joe Slattery:

From the mid-west perspective it is really successful and it really highlights how the interagency model works. We have a TR meeting, which is a treatment and rehab meeting, quarterly. It has all the drugs services, including the funder, that is, the HSE, the housing services and counsellors. There could be gardaí there too. There is a body of people and we all network and know one another very well. Sometimes you can phone housing and say "Listen this is a desperate situation, do something", and they will but only if a house or bed is available. The relationship is really strong. We absolutely do not work in work in isolation in Limerick. Everyone works together. There are favours, and a sense of "let us work a little harder here", and there are insights. That treatment and rehab interagency model should be implemented all over this country. We come together outside the DRIVE every quarter just to check in and ask each other what are we highlighting, what are we seeing, what is happening on the streets, how are we responding to it, how can we help, is there an interagency piece or a collaboration piece or can we share funding on this training. That works really well and is a model that should be highlighted across the country.