Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I think Dr. Keenan is misinterpreting me. I said that methadone maintenance has a place in harm reduction - it definitely does - but I emphasised the barriers that people face when they want to come off it at that stage in their lives. Sometimes there might only be a small window of opportunity for a person to be a able to decide this is the right time for them to come off methadone. They find the barriers unbelievably hard to get over.