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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Has anyone from the HSE ever sat down with Mr. Hoey and explained the structure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Was it requested of the HSE or the Department of Health?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: How long has the task force been requesting that meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: One of the issues that has come up, and it came up a lot in the drugs committee as well, is around how we can improve reactions to drug-related intimidation. The citizens’ assembly kind of heralded that the drugs and alcohol task forces can be involved in those DRIVE-type schemes. What is the witnesses’ reaction to that and where do they see their role there? What kind of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Is Mr. Doherty speaking specifically about the community gardaí?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I find that myself with community garda posts. Often, I spend a minute getting to know people and then they are gone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: And the task force has the connections on the ground.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I have less than a minute but I want to finish on a question I often ask. Have the witnesses received, in any meaningful way, extra resources or supports in respect of the emergence of nitazenes and increases in overdose relating to that substance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Has there been any expanded access to testing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: They did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It is not set in stone. The RHAs are pretty progressed to be not set in stone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: That is quite a while. That is something the committee could perhaps help with. I seek clarity on Mr. Hoey's point about the lady from the HSE, which he used as an example. That is somebody who is dealing with the local area task force in the normal way but will now also have the regional task force added to her workload. It seems she does not have any information as to how that will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: They all worked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Using the metric of more people in addiction and seeking treatment is not a great metric of outcomes in a health-led approach. I would like some clarity about when we will see the new national drugs strategy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: That is what the replies to parliamentary questions have stated to date. Is that still the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I am just trying to get a bit of clarity on that. During the drugs committee’s sessions, we were under the impression that the drafting of the strategy had already begun.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I am sorry for cutting across the Minister of State, but language has been used today to the effect that the new drugs strategy will be a “refresh”, to use Ms Ardle’s word, of the existing strategy. I notice that we are steering very-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It was said on that side of the room. We are steering very far away from the idea that we failed. We needed to hold a citizens’ assembly on the matter and the drugs committee sat for many sessions, yet we cannot sit here and say we have failed people in addiction. My next comment is not really aimed at the Minister of State, but more at the Department. When the citizens’...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: -----and a reframing of the existing drugs strategy. For the removal of doubt, the drugs strategy has failed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It has failed and failed. We needed to have a citizens’ assembly to prove how much it has failed.