Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence

9:00 am

Photo of Jonathan O'BrienJonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have 30 seconds so I will finish on this. The community provision of services, particularly post release from prison where somebody may have gone through an addiction programme, or from an addiction centre is on a voluntary basis. We give people information on where and how to engage with community-based services. Do we have a register of, or statistics on, the people who engage with those services? Do we have statistics on the people who disengage from the services following an addiction programme? Do we have statistics on how many people relapse in both settings? What is the relapse rate for people who disengage from the service and for people who engage with the service? That kind of information is good information for drug users in particular. When people come out of addiction, those who disengage from the services are far more likely to relapse than those who do not. That is a message we need to be pushing out to that particular community.

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