Rise in referrals for alcohol addiction
Representatives of Tabor Lodge, a treatment centre in Co Cork, told an Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children yesterday that the number of referrals by social services to its centre had grown in recent years.
The committee also heard that attendance by Tabor Lodge clients at a step-down facility, Fellowship House, was being jeopardised as the Department of Social Protection has withdrawn a €19-a-night discretionary payment.
