Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 June 2024

Committee on Drugs Use

Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health

9:30 am

Mr. Ben Ryan:

We are working closely with the Department of Health on the pathway forward. It is the policy lead on drugs. We have been progressing the health diversion programme. Actually, it is called the “health diversion scheme”. It changed title recently and I still have not caught up with it. The scheme tries to provide people caught in possession of drugs additional opportunities to avoid going into the criminal justice system. We already have the adult caution scheme for-----