Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 November 2025

Committee on Drugs Use

Substance Use and Young People: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Gary GannonGary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats)
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I will ask a question but I know the answer to it. Has youth work got harder in the last five to ten years? I worked in a youth work facility, the old Lourdes Youth and Community Services, LYCS, 12 years ago in Dublin. The role of the youth worker now seems infinitely more difficult, or maybe I am just getting older, but what happened to make it so?