Fiona O'Loughlin (Fianna Fail)
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I fully appreciate that. In the setting of the goals there must be an understanding of the capability of the individual and other circumstances that might help or prevent the goals being realised. The conditions must be put in place between the family and service provider to enable the goals to be reached, for example, if a person wants to take swimming lessons or to get an ATM card to use. Again, this is not my experience of St. Michael's House, but in some organisations realistic goals and ambitions are set down that are very much person-centred but sometimes nothing happens until there is another meeting involving family members, the service provider and the individual. They can look at a whole new different set of goals without having put a roadmap in place. The subsequent roadmap is every bit as important as setting the goals. In an unwieldy way, that is what I am trying to say.