Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It may be worth examining the incorporation of some reference to rehabilitation in the Title or a certain section. We all agree this is a gateway to harm reduction and that it would be desirable to follow through with rehabilitation and intervention to give people a chance. Even in terms of language, it is worth signalling to the Oireachtas and the people that this is what we are trying to do. It is making an intervention, first at the harm-reduction level and then giving people the rehabilitative piece. An effort has been made to model this legislation on measures in places that have actually have tried to achieve this objective. That it is not mentioned formally could indicate this is not what we are focused on, although it is what the Minister of State is focusing on, as I know. Perhaps it is worth incorporating in the Title or elsewhere a reference to following through with rehabilitative intervention, thus signalling it is something the Minister of State is trying to achieve. It is not in the Bill currently.