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Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: Yes, Deputy Chambers.

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: Go ahead.

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: You signalled that you wanted to speak, but we already approved each of the sections as we went through them.

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: Do you want to respond, Minister of State?

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: Allow the Minister of State to complete her contribution.

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: Does the Minister of State wish to respond?

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: I ask Deputy Barrett to give the Minister of State a chance to speak. Other Deputies wish to contribute.

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: I will let the Deputy back in.

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: If the Deputy allows me for one moment-----

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: If the Deputy allows me to speak for one moment, he asked the Minister if it was possible that the legislation could be reviewed in a year after its introduction. Is that possible?

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: Has someone got a mobile phone that is not on airplane mode or turned off?

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: We carried out pre-legislative scrutiny on this Bill. We had a debate in the Dáil on Second Stage and I understand that Deputy Seán Barrett was unavailable on both occasions. I am quite happy to listen to his comments, however. He can bring them up when the legislation goes back to the Dáil. With regard to the Bill itself, there have been no amendments. I do not know...

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: When we had our hearings, we heard some very distressing evidence that 200 people are dying from overdoses from IV drug abuse combined with other drugs on the streets and in their flats around Dublin. This is an opportunity and an attempt to reduce those deaths by whatever number we can. It is harm reduction and it is life-saving legislation.

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: We also heard evidence from An Garda Síochána about how it would police it. It would require sensitive policing.

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: Would the Minister like to make some final comments?

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: With due respect, the committee had an extensive pre-legislative scrutiny meeting at which all of these issues were discussed.

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: All the sections have been agreed. We are now having a discussion. I am going to bring it to a conclusion where I was interrupted.

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: No, we had gone through the sections. We will resume.

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: Sorry, Deputy Jack Chambers. We have gone through all of this before.

Select Committee on Health: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (22 Mar 2017)

Michael Harty: I am sorry, Deputy Jack Chambers. We have had an extensive discussion on this. We have been through the pre-legislative scrutiny. The Bill has been debated in the Dáil.