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

I appreciate that, however sometimes time is of the essence and by the time people ring an ambulance and it arrives, it may be too late. Although I do not have figures for the numbers of people who may or may not have been saved, in my area in Cork there are pharmacies which provide the service. They have trained pharmacists, particularly those who distribute the methadone programme. Occasionally someone may take the methadone inside the pharmacy and then overdose outside the door and the pharmacists have that training. At least members of the force who are on the beat would have some level of training in this. The more people who are trained in it and the more people who can distribute Narcan benefits addicts if gardaí come across an overdose.