Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 June 2024
Committee on Drugs Use
Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion
9:30 am
Mr. Paul Reid:
Looking at our recommendations, we did hear the position of An Garda Síochána and all of the other positions. We took a view, which I believe was extensive and comprehensive and took on board all of those views. Our report is not all about extra funding. There will be an extra funding demand on the services from the diversion and dissausion approach but also in terms of some of the cross-government co-ordination of it, the pace of introducing the legislation, involving some of the community groups in the design of supports, the statutory and voluntary organisations having different remits and the court system. In the current model, which is not what we recommend, there are some successes through that. There are many things we can do now.
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