Seanad debates

Wednesday, 6 November 2002

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion.

 

We are trying to do something about waiting lists for children and I hope that commitment is honoured. We also need to put a great deal of money into those initiatives that particularly affect children, initiatives dealing with drug dependency and, sadly, with alcohol dependency as well as substance abuse. We heard again today about the sad death of a 15 year old due to substance abuse. How much are we doing about these cases? This requires resources because it is not so much the treatment of the child when it happens as a matter of acting in the education system to do something about it.

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