Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health
Dr. Eamon Keenan:
We meet the centres regularly and are very supportive of the work they do. While I appreciate that they are getting lots of phone calls, I would point out that the enhancement of community services will allow them to divert people to community-based services. Not everyone will require residential treatment episodes for a substance abuse problem and they can avail of enhanced community services.