Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 September 2025

Committee on Drugs Use

Family Supports: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Andy O'Hara:

Again, it is getting people to be directly involved. In Uisce we have a peer partnership for change framework model. The goal is the achievement of social change. There is a participation spectrum and model that we implement to make sure people themselves are identifying issues and they are the ones speaking on them. It is not just me or Annmarie, and it is not just people who are in recovery. It is everybody. There is not a condition that you have to be drug-free to a certain level. You have human rights and you have a right to participate now and have a voice now. You have a right to deliver that message yourself directly to policy makers.