Mr. Tom Murray:

From a specific practitioner point of view, it involves the accessibility of pharmacists in terms of screening, recognising and sign posting and increased patient accessibility to addiction services as well as the increased use of needle exchange, opioid substitution therapy and harm reduction services, which could become available through an Irish pharmacy if properly resourced. The Portuguese certainly built on the model of accessibility of pharmacists in the communities for that. There are 78 million visits to pharmacies in a year, so we are ideally placed to take on that role if it is resourced, trained and put into place in the correct manner.