Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 October 2024
Committee on Drugs Use
A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed)
9:30 am
Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
I am trying to get a sense of what that international piece looks like in a practical way. Mr. Kelly spoke about linking up with international counterparts. When I did some reading for today, many of the stories that came up about Irish drug gangs were in The New York Times or on BBC News. We have graduated to a new era. How does that work? How often do they meet? What bodies does the Garda deal with? We see changes in legislation across other jurisdictions. Germany, for example, is moving towards regulating some drugs. We have been living with it in Europe for a while because different countries deal with different substances in different ways. That was in place but now we seem to be in a different era in which things are changing rapidly. How does the Garda navigate that? Does it present a challenge in policing? I presume the EU wants to work completely in lockstep on this but we all have different laws at the moment. Is that a challenge?
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