Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 October 2025

Committee on Drugs Use

Kinship Care and Care: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Gary Broderick:

Belonging is so important. If we can offer people that, I believe we will move forward an awful lot better in helping them process the trauma. There is a great reminder of connection to the list of adverse childhood experiences, ACEs, but increasingly in the literature, we are beginning to ask if we can have an extended list of ACEs because childhood tends to go on a little bit longer. We now know more than we did before and that it is more than those ten things listed in the ACEs that people are experiencing.

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