John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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955. To ask the Minister for Health further to his comments at the launch of the National Drugs Strategy, the areas which the €3 million additional funding referred to in his speech will be used to fund in 2017, and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35849/17]

Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Department of Health allocated an additional €3m to the HSE for drugs-related measures in 2017. It is intended that this additional funding will be used to:

- establish a pilot supervised injecting facility in Dublin city centre during 2017;

- increase access to buprenorphine/naloxone and buprenorphine products as an alternative treatment for the identified cohorts of patients for whom methadone treatment is not suitable;

- address gaps in addiction service provision for under 18s; and

- provide more detoxification places in community and residential settings next year.