Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 October 2024
Committee on Drugs Use
A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. Tony Duffin:
I am supportive and Ana Liffey has been supportive of mobile units from the outset with our advocacy for medically-supervised injection facilities. When we began advocating for medically-supervised injection facilities on 20 January 2012, a date that has stuck in my mind, injecting was the primary concern. Crack cocaine in Dublin is now as concerning, if not more concerning, than street-based injection. It is very difficult to open anything anywhere, so mobile units need to be considered and that is definitely something we could roll out quite quickly in Ireland if we chose to.