Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Independent)
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745. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the management structure in the Health Service Executive drug treatment service and if he will outline the arrangements which have been reached with the merger of the Drug Treatment Centre Board with the HSE. [36766/13]

Alex White (Dublin South, Labour)
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I have been informed by the HSE that the Social Inclusion Care Group has a strategy/policy implementation remit for a range of areas which includes drug treatment. The Care Group is under the direction of the National Primary Care and Social Inclusion Manager and governance is via the National Social Inclusion Governance Group (SIGG). The National Addiction Advisory Governance Group (NAAGG) identifies issues that impact on the provision of drug treatment services and reports to the SIGG. Operationally drug treatment services are managed by a network of Area Operation Managers/Regional Drug Coordinators.

The National Drug Treatment Centre (NDTC), formerly the Drug Treatment Centre Board, was incorporated into the HSE on the 1st January 2013 when Part 5 of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 was commenced. All assets, liabilities and staff transferred into the HSE on that date. The manager of the NDTC is a member of both the SIGG and NAAGG.