Dr. Peter Kelly:

When I presented at the citizens' assembly, I did not specifically present on that submission. I presented on the workforce piece. There was massive interest in governance and oversight of the drug treatment system. There definitely was an appetite for a strategic workforce development strategy but the operationalising of that is really complex. I found it difficult to articulate that and I do not even know myself exactly how that would work. There are documents and guidelines on it but they have to be adopted to the nuances of the Irish context.

There is a general structure that people mostly understood but the piece on strategic workforce development was carried into the recommendations of the assembly.