Mr. Stephen Courage:

If a person is arrested, there is a garda present who has been trained in testing for controlled substances to determine whether they are cannabis or cocaine, the substance turns out to be either and the person arrested with it accepts the garda's on-the-spot testing result, there is no need for the sample to be sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory where it would have to go through the entire process and create a backlog. This initiative accelerates the process; the person concerned is brought to court and the case is dealt with quickly, but there is no discretion in whether a prosecution takes place.