Marie Sherlock (Dublin Central, Labour)
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First, to clarify something I said earlier that might have come across rather clumsily, I am really conscious addiction does not discriminate. My question earlier was about the circumstances upon which a woman would need to go into a service with her children and I did not mean to get into profiling but just wanted to understand why. The question was addressed with regard to risk. I want to be clear about that, that I did not mean in any to offend or anything like that.

I am particularly interested in hearing about the relationships between the family support organisations and local authorities. Mr. Slattery spoke very powerfully about we do not have the training hardwired into the Garda with regard to trauma, drug related intimidation and all of that. Obviously, the DRIVE programme is there now. With regard to councils in terms of the housing aspect, when that intimidation is taking place, I would like to hear what relationships the witnesses have with local authorities in their various areas.