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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (7 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: The difficulty with that is we would need to give more than seven days' notice of the rescheduling of the meeting. Depending on the outcome of a vote on this proposal, we can put that proposal to the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (7 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: Okay. I will proceed to a voice vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (7 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: Deputy Burke is indicating. I am conscious the more people who speak, the more we are eating into the time available.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (7 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: We will put the question on whether the meeting should be postponed. If people disagree with the postponement, they can vote against the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (7 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: I apologise to the Health Service Executive staff who are in the waiting room.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: 190. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made with regard to the allocation of the €500,000 to address the crack cocaine crisis announced as part of Budget 2022; if not, when this decision will be made in order that community drugs projects that are struggling to maintain services will have clarity on available funding from 1 January 2022; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (1 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: We have a quorum. Apologies have been received from Deputy David Cullinane who will be substituted by Deputy Thomas Gould, and Senator Frances Black who will be substituted by Senator Lynn Ruane. Can I take it that the draft minutes of our private joint committee meetings on 16 and 24 November 2021 and the draft minutes of our public meetings on 17 and 24 November 2021 are agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: I welcome the following: Ms Anna Quigley, co-ordinator, CityWide Drugs Crisis Campaign; Ms Grace Hill, co-ordinator, the Tallaght Drug and Alcohol Task Force; and Mr. Shane Hamilton, co-ordinator, Jobstown Assisting Drug Dependency, JADD, Project. They are here to discuss the landscape of substance misuse and its impact on communities. Before the opening statements, I must point out to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: Ms Quigley must leave at 11 a.m. We will divide the meeting into two sections. Normally, members would get nine or ten minutes but we are going to give just five minutes for the opening session so that people can ask questions of either group or both. They will get another five minutes in the second round. Ms Quigley made the point that the community role is crucial. Will she explain how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: I thank Ms Quigley. Ms Hill made the point about January. What does that look like for people in Tallaght in regard to the response to the crack cocaine crisis? Can Ms Hill touch on the issues Ms Quigley raised about funding and emerging needs and trends, and the funding which task forces used to get but which was cut back?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: Mr. Hamilton has his hand up. Can he give a quick reply? I am conscious I am eating into members' time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: I call Senator Kyne and apologise for delaying bringing him in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: Can Ms Quigley keep her reply short?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: We have lost Deputy Gould. I think we have lost everyone. Apologies to people watching at home. Deputy Gould, we lost you for a couple of seconds. Could you start again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: Who would like to take that? Mr. Hamilton, would you like to kick off first?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: There are no residential beds or supports for a single woman bringing children along to that residential element, for example. There is nothing like that at moment either, is there? This a huge gap for anybody who is seeking treatment. Would Ms Hill like to come in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: Again, as a committee, we will look in our next private meeting at trying to bring in the Minister of State to respond to some of the remarks that have been made today, so that we can develop on from what we are hearing today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: That is fine. We will hopefully have a second round anyway. Our next member is Deputy Shortall.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: We agreed at the start of the meeting that we would have five minutes for the first round of questions and then we would come back for a second round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Substance Misuse and its Impact on Communities: Discussion (1 Dec 2021)

Seán Crowe: The next speaker is Deputy Hourigan.