Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Submissions on Drugs Review: Discussion
2:00 pm
Mr. Daniel Kirby:
On the Chairman's question about cost savings, a document was published by the UK Treasury a few days ago. Its focus is on cannabis and legalisation or regularisation.
Its focus is on the legalisation and regulation of cannabis, as well as referring to its decriminalisation. It highlighted that up to 672,000 hours of police time are spent on possession offences each year. It also goes into the savings from a financial perspective. It only came out several days ago, so I have not had a chance to ingest it fully.
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