Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)

Ba mhaith liom cead a lorg rún a mholadh chun an Dáil a chur ar athló faoi Bhuan Ordú 32 chun an ábhar seo a phlé: go bhfuil gá rí-thábhachtach poiblí go ndéanfaí plé práinneach ar the need for the the Government to recognise that to tackle the drugs crisis and associated crime effectively, addiction treatment centres must be ready and available when sought by users; and to take urgent action to reduce the growing waiting lists for methadone treatment - which currently stand at a year or more in four of the country's main treatment centres, and nine months in the Aisling centre in Ballyfermot - by making additional resources available for treatment centres and by increasing the cap on the number of addiction patients a GP can initiate treatment for from 35 to 55, thereby assuring an additional 1,000 drug users are taken off the waiting lists of the centralised treatment providers.

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