Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 October 2025
Committee on Drugs Use
Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion
2:00 am
Ms Caroline O'Reilly:
Where I work, we have an outreach service. We could consider more of a satellite-type service that would provide an outreach service delivery to people's homes, in the nearest community centre or wherever the client would like to meet. That works quite well because our clients are spread all over Dublin some of them outside Dublin. We meet our clients where they are at, which has always worked very well. We could perhaps have more remote services, which is not always ideal. During Covid restrictions it was all we could do at the time. We need more accessibility for people, involving rural outreach. It is not possible to set up a service in every local town but having more flexibility and availability is-----