Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not take issue with the Minister. However, we are telling ourselves this to reassure ourselves. We can solve it without the two. We have to put the drug suppliers out of business. We can choose. We can continue, as it were, a programme of appeasement. I was on a drugs programme previously many years ago and we came to the conclusion that methadone treatment was excellent as long as it showed results. There has to be a result at the end of the day. Feeding the drug problem more and knowing that suppliers of the industry will supply more will not solve the issue. We put them out of business. They have the most growing business in the country at present. We cannot continue as we are. We cannot continue as a society.

The Minister already referenced society becoming more violent. It sure as hell is becoming more violent. The law of the jungle is prevailing now to an ever-greater extent every day. We need to be conscious of that.

I have to go over to the Chamber, unfortunately, so if I might be excused. The Minister can send me a reply to the question about the structures in the HSE and the regions. I will be waiting for that reply. My apologies for having to leave so early.