Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 December 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Role and Functions: All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care

10:30 am

Ms Karen Charnley:

We are very much limited by our size. There is more that we could progress if we were a larger organisation but we try to prioritise our efforts. One example is the Palliative Care Awareness Week. The institute provided significant funding for that last year and we received good coverage in national, regional and local media. That is something we would like to run again but we are constrained by our limited funding. That is one example of where additional funding could be required.

I work on the palliative hub in the institute. We want to ensure it is sustainable in the long term and that the resources can continue to be developed and added to make the sites live and keep them interesting.