In December 2022, Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD launched the Dublin North East Inner City (NEIC) initiative’s 2022 progress report. Since its establishment in 2017, the NEIC’s vision is of ‘making the North East Inner City a safe, attractive, and vibrant living and working environment for the community and its families with opportunities for all to lead full lives’ (p. 6). This most recent progress report describes the activities undertaken in 2022 to meet this aim.

The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has published a report outlining key factors to inform policy for the collection, use, and sharing of health and social care information in Ireland. The report identifies four areas in which progress is needed to develop a robust health information environment that will allow stakeholders to make choices and decisions based on the best available information.

In recognition of the harmful effects of alcohol use in the European Region, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that measures be put in place to reduce population-level alcohol use. One such recommendation is minimum unit pricing (MUP). MUP specifically targets the heaviest drinkers who buy the cheapest alcohol. By reducing its affordability, less alcohol will be purchased and consumed, reducing the harm that alcohol causes to people who drink and others.

The event ‘Addiction Recovery: The Gap between Scientific Evidence and Political Will’ was held in Trinity College Dublin on Friday, 11 November 2022. The event was hosted by Professor Jo-Hanna Ivers, an associate professor in addiction at the university. The overarching theme of the event was addiction recovery under which six presentations were made by international experts on the topic. These experts came from the universities of Leeds and Birmingham in the United Kingdom and Stanford and Harvard in the United States.