Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 June 2024
Committee on Drugs Use
Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion
9:30 am
Ms Céire Moynihan:
I would make one suggestion. Deputy Gould mentioned the idea that it seems to predominantly affect marginalised communities. We talked a great deal about social capital and the idea that people would have support around them, such as community, family, kinship, care and all of what we have in certain sectors of society that just does not exist in others. We need to look at that. The details are in the report.
Deputy Fitzpatrick mentioned how it is depressing in one way because of the enormous amount of human capital, time, effort and money that the Government is putting into this but it is still not enough. Mr. Galvin deals with data. It is about evidence-based solutions, what is working and whether we can roll it out. It should not be patchwork across the country. Everyone should be entitled to this type of care and the sooner we pull together to get that done, the better.