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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I know what those figures are-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: For what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I am asking you a question about the local drugs task forces-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: -----so stop telling me about other services. Tell me about the drugs task forces.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I am talking about the core funding for local drugs task forces.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I am just looking for figures. Has the core funding decreased for local drugs task forces every year for the last 12 years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I am asking the Minister of State a straight question. I am talking about core services.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I am asking the Minister of State a straightforward question about the core funding for local drugs task forces over the last 12 years. The information we have been given this morning from the group who were in earlier is that this funding has reduced by 4.5% over the last 12 years, not adjusted for inflation. Is that true?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: What does Ms McArdle mean by a significant increase?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I am asking the Department to provide a note for us here in the committee on the core funding provided to local drugs tasks forces since 2012.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I would appreciate that and we might get a straight answer that way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I want to move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I know what the Minister of State is talking about but I am asking about the core funding. The next question I want to move on to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. We will see that with the figures which will be provided by the Department, I hope. I want to move on. Reference was made to the factors that were taken into consideration when pursuing a strategy, one being the social determinants of health. The point was made that Government-wide issues impact on the causes of people developing drug issues. Will the Minister of State outline the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Will Ms McArdle outline those, please?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: On what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I am sorry. I am asking for the structures, please. Will Ms McArdle outline those?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Please do, just so we can see who the representatives are. How often does that body meet?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: What is the opportunity for the local drugs task forces to make an input into policy development?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion (6 Nov 2024)
Róisín Shortall: That is a subgroup of the national oversight committee.