Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 June 2024

Committee on Drugs Use

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Paul Reid:

The evidence and the data are produced by the Health Research Board. We have the data and Mr. Galvin can talk about it in detail but in 2020, there were 409 drug induced deaths overall. We are the worst performer across the EU. In some cases, we have three times the level of deaths of other EU countries. You cannot get an indicator that is any larger, more impactful or more urgent than that. That is an awful indicator to have.