Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Martin Hoey:

I would look at it as news stories. We always see where big drug seizures are caught that they will always make good news, but people will never hear of somebody who has gone through a full treatment programme, has recovered, has come out the other side and is grand. You never hear that story. The Government will always look at it and say it put in the resources and stopped a certain amount of drugs getting into the country. We never hear the Government saying it put the money into task forces and 100 or 1,000 people recovered and no longer have an issue with drugs. We will not hear that part but we always hear the negative side. That is why it is more down the bottom of the ladder.

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