Ms Caroline Fahy:

Again, it is not an area for which we would have figures, but it does concern some of our members working with households. Much of the time, these issues are not mentioned to us because people fear it might affect the assistance we give them. Addiction is an issue for many of us. It is hard to know how to handle it because we assist people in a non-judgmental way. We are not going to stop assisting a household because of an addiction.