Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Do the witnesses have a view on the process for approving products? Could anything else be tightened up in that regard? How reliable are the statistics relating to the time of the Covid pandemic? Are they a blip? The witnesses spoke about the pressure people were under and so on. Everything was abnormal. Alcohol sales were probably also up during that period. There is anecdotal evidence about illegal drug sales. How were they getting drugs into the country during lockdown? We were doing many things that we would not do normally. Hopefully, as we move out of this madness that will not happen again.