It comes more than two years after recommendations were delivered from the Special Commission of Inquiry into Methamphetamine Use,which failed to attract any funding in the state budget.
Perrottet this week said a response would be delivered “very shortly”,but would not elaborate on a time frame.
“It’s not about rushing to the outcome. It’s about getting the right outcome and I believe we’re very close to landing it,” he said.
Professor Dan Howard,who oversaw the inquiry,said the premier’s assurances rang hollow,accusing the government of ignoring vulnerable people through “shameful” inaction.
“Like the boy who cried wolf,the premier has for so long been saying that the government will ‘very soon’ respond to the inquiry’s recommendations.”
While five of the 109 recommendations,including an additional supervised injecting centre and pill testing trial,were rejected almost immediately,thegovernment has made no further response to the 14-month-long inquiry.
“NSW has now acquired an embarrassing reputation as a laggard state for its decrepit drug and alcohol policy,” Howard told theHerald. “The lives of people with drug problems are being put at risk in a political ‘dance macabre’ with a feckless government that doesn’t give a sou about them.”