Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

That is fair enough. I would just say that is my constituency, so I am a bit protective of the services we get. Obviously, every constituency does not experience the type of impacts from drugs and the requirements for recovery and addiction services we do in the north east inner city and the north city in general. I must say some of the language coming out of the Department at the moment looks to me like an ideological centralisation of some of those decision-making processes. I am sure the Minister of State is aware the best international practice is to take an integrated community approach. I am very mindful that, post Covid, we really do not know what the landscape is going to look like in terms of the impact of drugs. We are very likely to experience the ripple effect of Covid for a long time to come.

I would like to know, from the Minister of State, where that more centralised strategy is coming from. I do not necessarily believe it is in line with the national drugs strategy. One of the things he said in his opening statement was that it is a whole-of-government strategy. I agree with that. Part of the issue around drugs is that we need to look at housing provision, broader health issues and education in all of its senses. Has the Department undertaken a review, with other Departments, of that more centralised approach? For example, has it reached out to the Department of Social Protection or the Department that deals with equality and looked at what is, to some extent, a meaningful reduction in community leadership around drugs and addiction? What was the nature of that review? How are we going to now gather evidence and information on the ground when community services are being disenfranchised, to some extent?