An Bord Pleanála reconsiders application for supervised drug injection facility near school

The proposed development of the centre provides for an off-street waiting area and a reconfiguration of MQI’s existing services with the supervised injecting facility located in a vacant basement within the building. Photo: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

A planning row is set to reignite over a renewed effort to secure planning permission for the country’s first medically supervised injection facility.

An Bord Pleanála is to reconsider an application by Merchant’s Quay Ireland to operate a controversial drop-in facility at the drug treatment centre’s headquarters on Merchant’s Quay, Dublin.