Ms Marie Metcalfe:

There was mention of a mandatory sentence. It would be important, for example, that somebody would get a ten-year sentence if he or she has drugs worth €10,000 or over. It is not happening. One young person had over €10,000 of heroin and we are living next door to him on a little road. A neighbour's life is hell, whether he or she knows the family or not. We were expecting him to get ten years but he got a suspended sentence.