Ms Jackie McKenna:

I would like there to be a more joined-up approach. Within the communities we serve, we are all vying for funding. We are all minding our own little projects and there is a sense other providers should not be looking at our projects or they would not be getting ours. I have enjoyed and learned a great deal from the place-based leadership programme that has been run through the Drogheda implementation plan. It builds leaders through a more inter-agency, collaboration and shared learning approach. That has been terrific in building trust and openness between groups on the ground. That is something I would like to see rolled out nationally. I would love there to be a regional unit for each region in Ireland because it is very hard for family members and people in addiction to travel with all the expense that would involve. Ms McKenna spoke about our support network being embedded in the community. If we knew it would be sustained into the future, we could relax and let it take its natural course. If it is not, as she said, that is 21 years of infrastructural relationships, trust built up within the community, and the Chairman will know how long it takes to build that up within the community, and training wiped out in a heartbeat, along with our relations with the families. It is very important to have an inter-agency approach where we all support each other. This engagement has been beautiful today and I have learned a great deal from it.