Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 October 2024

Committee on Drugs Use

A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Justin Kelly:

Around the country, what we often see, and not only with LEAR, are pockets of really good practice. For us, it is about evaluating and reviewing them and seeing how they are working, particularly the impact on us around resourcing and finances. If a project is one that we think we can roll out across the country or we can be involved in around the country, we will do that. As I said, we have lots of different pockets of really good work, and not just in this area. Organisationally, to get them across the whole country, we have a strategic transformation office that any of this big projects would have to go through. We have done it in lots of different areas, particularly around domestic violence and sexual crime. If we see good pockets of interaction similar to LEAR but in the crime area, we will introduce those across the country. We would, therefore, definitely consider it.