Merchant's Quay Ireland injection facility granted retention permission by An Coimisiún Pleanála

The Merchants Quay Ireland in Dublin City.  The council's granting of permission was appealed to An Coimisiún Pleanála by a local resident who claimed, amongst other grounds, that insufficient child-safety safeguards were in place at the facility, and that the area already had the highest concentration of drug-support facilities in the State. File picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

A medically supervised injection facility for drug users on Dublin’s quays has been granted final permission to continue with its mission by An Coimisiún Pleanála.

The injection facility, housed in the vacant basement of homeless and drugs charity Merchants Quay Ireland’s (MQI's) building on Dublin’s south quays, had first been approved for retention, or change of use, by Dublin City Council last December.