Mr. Jim Breslin:

I will not talk about all the hepatitis C ones. Some of them are specific to hepatitis C. With regard to the drugs and addiction service and the role it has to play, we have produced the new national drugs strategy, Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery. We have refreshed the governance and interdepartmental involvement in it. All of the relevant Departments and agencies meet. It is chaired by the Minister of State. Much inter-agency work is under way. The allocation of resources has started in line with that strategy. I am not here to make a case that we have completed it. We have started it. In 2018, €9 million was made available for a range of initiatives including the supervised injecting room and for addiction services for under 18s. The Deputy spoke about treatment places and beds but it also is about getting people into communities to work on a multidisciplinary basis with children who have addiction and putting in place young people's counsellors, clinical nurse specialists and so on. We have a range of initiatives under way. We could supply details to the committee. They play into making services more accessible but also into prevention and harm reduction. Much of what we are talking about here is harm reduction in order that people who are engaged in a harmful activity understand the implications. We work with them to try to limit it and to try to get them away from behaviour that is harmful to them. That is the core of the national drugs strategy.