Ms Nina Brennan:

I will start and then ask Ms Wright or Ms Foley to come in. We talked about the pilot earlier. It is no longer a pilot. It was mainstreamed and put on a permanent footing after a 2005 review.

It was expanded from a small section of the north side of Dublin to the whole Dublin metropolitan district. The Deputy asked whether it will be expanded nationwide. The Department of Justice, our parent Department, is about to undertake a review of the drug treatment court. That is on foot of an action in the national drugs strategy and the action plan for that strategy for the period 2023 to 2024. It will be a matter for that review to determine where the drug treatment court goes.

The Deputy’s first question was on the length of time. Ms Foley might speak about that because we have very low numbers. The approach is what I would call a very person-centred approach, so it really depends on the person. I do not know whether we have an average.