Planning permission refusal for Ireland's first injecting centre branded 'reprehensible'
Merchants Quay Ireland has appealed against the decision by Dublin City Council.
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Merchants Quay Ireland has appealed against the decision by Dublin City Council.
DCC last month refused permission for the the injecting centre.
Dublin City Council has refused planning permission for an injecting facility.
The Council gave its decision yesterday.
Merchants Quay Ireland applied to Dublin City Council for planning permission for the centre last year.
The centre aims to provide a safe, clean environment for people to inject drugs.
A plan to open a medically supervised injecting facility has been met with fierce local opposition.
The centre would cater for 60 heroin and cocaine addicts every day.
An announcement was due today, but it’s been delayed yet again.
Does the first supervised injecting centre need to be in the city centre? Some business owners say no.
The Ana Liffey Drug Project also wants to develop a Naloxone programme and a crisis detox unit for drug users.