Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 November 2025

Committee on Drugs Use

Substance Use and Young People: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Mary FitzpatrickMary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have a short question. In regard to the real-time trends of substance abuse, we all accept there is a massive need for greater funding and resources for prevention and awareness. If we take the case of nitrous oxide when that emerged, we knew about it locally and could respond locally with our youth service. If I am wrong in this, I would like to know. Is there a mechanism to alert the HSE in real-time? It could be something as simple as an email address for youth workers, members of the community, drugs task forces and so on to alert the HSE that, for instance, they are seeing a massive spike in whatever at this location. Does that exist?

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