Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 October 2021

Joint Committee On Health

Mental Health Services: Samaritans Ireland

Mr. Rory Fitzgerald:

On the question of how the committee can help, I would ask the Senator and all her colleagues in politics to make people aware, within their local communities, of who we are and to encourage people to join us as volunteers. That is a very important message. The more volunteers we have, the more we can do. We have a reasonable queue at the moment because, as I said earlier, we could not train for over a year, so we have a good bank of people who want to join. However, we will always need volunteers, and if that message can be got into every local community, that would be a big thing for us.