Dr. Joanne McEvoy:

The community groups with which we engaged talked a lot about consultation fatigue without action and a perception that when they are asked their views, they articulate their views and their perspectives or what they think end up in a filing cabinet and not much happens thereafter. What they would prefer to see is a mechanism for interaction and sharing of expertise, how they define the problems as they see them on the ground and their experiences can feed into policy for policy to suggest ways in which these problems can be ameliorated or public service delivery improved and for them to have an opportunity to feed back in so it would be an interactive process, relationship or mechanism rather than simply consultations.