Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 October 2024
Committee on Drugs Use
Family and Community: Discussion
9:30 am
Mr. John Paul Collins:
I agree with that. It needs to happen at all levels. We need to see cultural competency and anti-racism training. We are involved in this work to make change and to have a positive influence on our clients' futures and lives. Anti-racism and cultural competency needs to happen across the board but particularly among front-line workers within the services themselves. It needs to be mandatory within the services that staff are given cultural competency and anti-racism training because without that, we are on a highway to nowhere in achieving what we want to achieve.