Ms Céire Moynihan:

I want to refer back to Deputy Kenny's point and the Leas-Chathaoirleach's point on stop and search and the stigmatisation around that. At the round-table discussions, members felt very strongly and uncomfortable with the level and degree of stop and search that was going on in our city and across the nation. The Garda Síochána presented to us that it was focusing on the chain of supply, but there was another statistic provided to us. In Dublin the search and supply are higher than in London, which has 9 million people. There is truth somewhere in between all of that. There is stigmatisation around the stop and search. It is criminalising a behaviour that we are trying to say is a health issue and we need to look at that.