Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion

9:30 am

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

I am interested in some of these interactions between all the different agencies. We talked a little about the funding coming through the HSE. We are in a time where everything is changing. Regarding the task force operations, we talked a little about local versus regional. Is there concern or are there challenges around the new regional health authorities, RHAs, for example, as regards their size, access to them and whether the witnesses believe they will be able to interact with them in terms of the stakeholder-led model? I take the point that every area is different. Dublin is a particular regional health authority and will be different from somewhere in Cork, Sligo or wherever it might be. How are the witnesses navigating that change? Do they see opportunity there?

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