Ms Annmarie Dunphy:

There is a lack of services outside of Dublin and in the country. There is a youth club in my town and the kids have to be in trouble to get access to that youth club. That should not be the way. It should be for every child. A lot of that brings peer pressure too. For women and men down the country there are no services. You have to travel to Dublin or the city. There are also the wait times. Tusla is coming in saying it is going to take the kids, and you have only so long to get into treatment. There are wait times to get into treatment. You have to have clean urine to get into treatment. There is a process that goes with that, and you are not given that chance. That needs to be looked at as well, for mothers in addiction to be given that chance to go through that process and come up with a solution.