Written answers
Tuesday, 24 February 2015
Department of Health
National Drugs Strategy Implementation
Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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426. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, an update on the implementation of each of the 63 actions in the 2009 to 2016 National Drugs Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7858/15]
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The National Drugs Strategy 2009-2016 is a cross cutting area of public policy and service delivery. It is based on a co-ordinated approach across many Government Departments and Agencies in conjunction with the Community and Voluntary sectors and I intend that this approach will continue.
Periodic reviews of progress across the five pillars of the Strategy are carried out through the Oversight Forum on Drugs which I chair.
A progress report on each of the 63 Actions of the National Drugs Strategy is prepared each year and posted on my Department's website at www.health.gov.ie. The draft report for 2014 is still under consideration by the Oversight Forum on Drugs. I will arrange for a copy of the report to be sent to the Deputy when it has been agreed by the Forum.
Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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427. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the funding provided each year, since 2010, by the Health Service Executive, to support implementation of the National Drugs Strategy. [7861/15]
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table.
2010 Expenditure €m | 2011 Expenditure €m | 2012 Expenditure €m | 2013 Expenditure €m | 2014 Expenditure €m |
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105,400 | 92,878 | 90,752 | 90,392 | 114,777 |
The decrease in expenditure in 2011 compared to 2010 arose due to savings, which were achieved as a result of the public service pay cut, HSE staffing redundancies and a reduction in funding to Voluntary and Community Agencies funded under service arrangements. The increase in the 2014 allocation is due to a transfer of €21.57m in funding from my Department's Vote to the HSE Vote in respect of Drug and Alcohol Task Force projects.
In addition, a range of other services in the HSE provide frontline interventions to clients with addiction issues. These include the Health & Wellbeing, Mental Health and Acute Hospital Services Divisions as well as the Emergency Departments, Primary Care Services and General Practitioners.
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