Drug-treatment beds and advisory services
O’Hanlon asked whether the planned St James’s beds would be additional to Jervis Street and when they would be available. Desmond outlined plans for inpatient facilities at St James’s and Beaumont, with a walk-in advisory centre at Jervis Street.
Is the bed facility proposed for St. James's additional to what is in Jervis Street? When does he expect that bed facility will be available?
Comment on this
The framework we have in mind is a very clear one, a bed facility in St. James's, a bed facility detoxification-treatment facility in the new hospital at Beaumont and then in Jervis Street we will have the walk-in walk-out drugs advisory centre. Where in-patient treatment was required those on the south side of the Liffey would be referred to the beds in James's Street Hospital and those on the north side would go to Beaumont.
Let me add in regard to Deputy De Rossa's observations in relation to, I presume, the Provisional IRA, that I share his views totally. I have given repeated warnings to residents' groups in areas not to allow the drug situation to be exploited by terrorist, subversive groups in our community, and I am aware of certain actions in that regard which we must all oppose.