Dr. Eamon Keenan:

Medicinal cannabis is not within the brief of HSE addiction services and is not in the national drugs strategy. I will bring it back to Housing First in that €1.3 million has been made available under that plan to provide health supports for an additional 260 tenancies for people who are long-term homeless. We are also enhancing the integrated care and case management service for 4,000 single homeless people who have complex needs. The issue of addiction, homelessness and Housing First is very much to the fore. We are very much engaged with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage regarding it. Housing First is a very good initiative and is one that we are supportive of.