<p>
	One of Dublin&#39;s most prominent activists for the homeless says mobile injecting clinics could be the answer to tackling drug abuse on Dublin&#39;s streets.</p>
<p>
	<br />
	Fr Peter McVerry was responding to calls from the city&#39;s Lord Mayor for a new &quot;task force&quot; involving all organisations who work with the homeless or drug addicts.</p>
<p>
	<br />
	Fr McVerry says he welcomes the Lord Mayor&#39;s comments, but he said the State need to take a new approach, and mobile clinics could be part of the solution.</p>
<p>
	<br />
	He said: &quot;In many cities you have mobile injecting clinics where people who use heroin can go with medical personnel. There are no needles hanging around the streets.</p>
<p>
	<br />
	&quot;We also need to invest in treatement programmes, we have approximately 35 detox beds in this country for 20,000 heroin users and that&#39;s an absolute disgrace.&quot;</p>
<p>
	<a href="http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/dublin-needs-mobile-injecting-clinics-to-tackle-drug-abuse-638819.html">http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/dublin-needs-mobile-injecting-clinics-to-tackle-drug-abuse-638819.html</a></p>
