Right to Information No.: RTI202223-054

Right to Information Reference: RTI202223-054

Date of Decision:           17 October 2022

Information Requested

An application made pursuant to the Right to Information Act 2009 (‘the Act’), received the Department of Health (“the public authority”) on 13 September 2022.

The information requested:

Could you please provide the number of (I) cautions, (2) diversions and (3) referrals to health intervention issued through the Illicit Drug Diversion Initiative (IDDI) in the financial years 2015/ I 6, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19 and 2019/20.

For the five financial years 2015/ I 6, 2016/ 17, 2017/ I 8, 2018/ 19 and 2019/20.

Decision and Statement of Reasons

I have decided to release 1 page of information to you in full, please see Schedule 1 attached.

Schedule 1

Please note:

• Diversions and referrals are the same, given that every diversion is accompanied by a referral to a treatment provider. Information about how many referrals have been complied with by the referred is given in column four.