HSE to be told of parents’ drink and drug crimes

The HSE is to be informed by the Courts Service in Clare of all convictions relating to serious alcohol and drug abuse and dealing against parents of young children.

At two separate district court sittings in Ennis last week, Judge Patrick Durcan directed that convictions relating to a married father who was dealing heroin from the family home and a mother of two described in court as “a serial drunk” be forwarded to the HSE.

The ISPCC yesterday welcomed the initiative.