Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I recommend that this petition be forwarded to the Joint Committee on Health and Children, as the Minister for Health is responsible for the legalisation or not of different substances, and to the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality to ask it if it could deliberate on this issue, as it is one that is constantly raised. We do not have the expertise to deliberate on it fully - nor do we have the powers, because no public policy has as yet been breached. However, it is an issue of concern to the public and we should refer it to those committees to see whether the expertise they can draw on can look at it in the future. It would be up to them to decide, but they should inform us of whatever decision they make so that we can keep the petitioner informed of the progress of this petition if it is referred to another committee, or to both these committees.