Lynn Ruane (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Diversifying the profession should be a long-term goal. Doing so would bring in all of that different learning because there are different types of people working in medicine.

On novel benzos, we saw the recent reports about the Irish Prison Service and Portlaoise Prison. We have had novel benzos in the past, have we not? I do not know if the problem is recognised as that. A few years ago, across Bluebell and Inchicore, there were several deaths. People locally stated that this was caused by a bad batch of "Nike" tablets, which are street benzos. Are we saying that, potentially, each time a novel benzo comes up, it contains different components? Are enough testing and research being done on what is contained in each iteration of novel benzos?