Dr. Joseph Duffy:

The real point is thinking about the young person at the centre and what is going to work for a young person. It sounds very simple but it often gets completely lost because we end up in terms of ratios or looking at particular funding paradigms. It is about trying to think what will make sense for a particular young person and what are his or her needs. Their needs are going to vary. As Mr. Smyth and others were saying in regard to looking at services, when we think about our particular relationship around an SLA with the HSE or with particular funders it is about whether there is criteria for how it operates and how it works in a programmatic way with other agencies. That is useful in terms of looking at it. Rather than people doing it as a tick-box, there needs to be a qualitative piece for that in terms of how it leads to improving the lives of young people.