Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 January 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health

Mr. Jim Walsh:

Yes, on the missing five actions, what has happened is that we did not have enough information to make a definitive judgement as to the progress going on there. The Deputy mentioned action 20, which was about expanding addiction services for pregnant and postnatal women. Under that, there are six or seven or more subactions. There has been progress on some of them. The most obvious one is the drug and alcohol liaison midwives. We have now provided funding for a drug and alcohol liaison midwife across all the hospital groups in the country. That is a significant achievement. However, there are other aspects of that we do not have enough information on and we are working to make sure we get additional information on those actions. I will give the Deputy back a separate note on those because he has identified that gap which is very important to address.

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