Nicole Ryan (Sinn Fein)

Dr. Lambert said that only 1% is spent on addiction and 5.8% is spent on mental health. This is really telling. Until addiction reaches the same level of spending as mental health, it will be increasingly hard - as great as the work is that everybody is doing - to get to that level where dual diagnosis is even a combined thing. Why is this level of spending so low? Is it because the Government is not taking addiction seriously as a health issue or is it that it has just been shoved to justice?