Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 September 2025

Committee on Drugs Use

Family Supports: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Anita Harris:

At the moment we have neither, so we have to meet both needs. Currently, there are only two mother and child residential centres in the whole country that provide treatments for mothers and children and Coolmine provides them. People would not have to come into Coolmine to take up a tier 4 residential bed if the supports were in the community. There is a handful of fantastic community organisations that support the needs of both parents and children but I could probably count them on two hands.