Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their comments which have been very insightful. I wish to follow on from what Deputy Ó Murchú was saying. Obviously, there has been much reporting in the media recently about synthetic opioids. There are horror stories from the United States and elsewhere. The supply from Afghanistan may dry up and the drug market would need to fill that vacuum with synthetic opioids.

We have heard that these drugs are extremely potent. How concerned are the witnesses about the proliferation of synthetic drugs in the event that poppy-based heroin dries up and synthetic opioids fill the vacuum?