Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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1282. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which and the locations in which the additional €3 million allocated to drugs services is being spent in 2017. [38982/17]

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.

I have asked the Health Service Executive to provide details of the locations in which this funding has been used to date and reply directly to the Deputy.