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.