Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If you take the way we responded to crack cocaine, for instance, take the south inner city drug and alcohol task force and its cocaine and crack cocaine research. There was a HSE-led initiative in order to reduce health-related hard from cocaine and crack cocaine in the south inner city area here in Dublin. Therefore, there was a response. This is the challenge now we have regarding heroin. As the Deputy knows, we will have a supervised injection facility opened in Merchants Quay. The target is to have it opened by mid December. That project has taken up to five years because of various planning issues. I have been down there where the building work is going on and that is the response there. The issue now is that while the challenge still is in relation to heroin, there is also a huge challenge related to the use of cocaine, particularly crack cocaine.