21 March 2017
The Select Committee on Health will tomorrow meet with the Minister of State for Communities and the National Drugs Strategy, Catherine Byrne TD, to take Committee stage of the Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017.
The meeting will commence at 2.30pm in Committee Room 3 tomorrow, Wednesday, 22 March 2017.
Committee Chairman Dr. Michael Harty TD said “The aim of this piece of legislation is to provide for the licensing of supervised injecting facilities in order to enhance the dignity, health and wellbeing of those who inject drugs in public places. These medically supervised facilities could reduce the incidences of public injecting, and associated drug related litter, whilst providing a harm-reducing environment for those that need it and preventing unnecessary deaths from unintentional overdose.”
“This health-led approach to problem drug use recognises that drug use is not only a criminal mater but also a health one, and one that requires new thinking to address an old problem. A harm reducing approach would go some way to decreasing the level of damage that substance users cause to themselves and their families through the provision of sterile injecting equipment, counselling services, emergency care and primary medical care.”
You can read the latest version of the Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017 here.
Committee proceedings can be viewed live here.
Committee proceedings can also be viewed on the move, through the Houses of the Oireachtas Smartphone App, available for Apple and Android devices.
Source: Houses of the Oireachtas, 21/03/17
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