Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 October 2024
Committee on Drugs Use
A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. Gary Broderick:
I just want to acknowledge the work of the GPs and the doctors in methadone clinics and the individual care that they give, in case it is coming across in any way negative, for the work that they are doing. It was mentioned earlier that the case management model we operate, when it was written through NDRIC in 2010, was very much centred around what the service user wanted. What has happened with case management is that we have gone with what the service wants and what is driving that. We have to go back to that model where we are asking the service users what they want and building from there. That is the kind of work that we need to do.