Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 October 2025
Committee on Drugs Use
Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion
2:00 am
Evanne Ní Chuilinn (Fine Gael)
The point Dr. O'Reilly makes about seven centres and five of them being in Dublin demonstrates this is not an urban problem but a problem occurring everywhere. There was a conversation around public health and public health nurses. I spoke to a public health nurse recently who is dealing with many of these challenges on an ad hoc basis. There is no service in this particular town. This practitioner said she would like to see more clinical nurse specialists in dual diagnosis based in public health clinics. Our witnesses are the experts in the room. Is that something that would work and would be easily rolled out if the initiative and funding was there?
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