Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 October 2024
Committee on Drugs Use
A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed)
9:30 am
Dr. Peter Kelly:
You cannot do everything overnight. You could start with HSE statutory services and then branch into non-statutory services. All services that treat people who use drugs should be subject to independent oversight. It is crazy that they are not. Stigma is explicitly built into the system. We inspect services for other marginalised groups but drug users are not worthy of an independent inspectorate. That is not acceptable in this day and age.