Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I apologise for being out there as I had other meetings to do. The discussion may already have touched on the growth in the availability of cocaine. What kind of percentage growth have we seen over the last two to three years, or even over the last five years? We must then consider the number of people adversely affected, for example in the area of heroin, at the moment. I signed the licence agreement for the Merchants Quay Project on 21 December 2024. It opened on 22 December. Between that date and 30 May there were some 4,000 attendances there. That is not 4,000 people, it is about 670 people who used the facilities in Merchant's Quay over the following five months. There has been a huge growth in cocaine use. How is that posing new challenges that were not there five years ago? Would any of the witnesses like to deal with that?