Former health chief Paul Reid has vowed to press ahead today with a controversial new Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs.
Mr Reid, who is on a €650 daily fee, is chairman of the convention that begins a two-day conference this morning in Dublin. The gathering has been criticised since it was established following a Dail Eireann resolution in February.
A letter with objections from addiction experts and medical professionals about issues like transparency in the assembly was drafted last week for Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
