Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Submissions on Drugs Review: Discussion

2:00 pm

Mr. Pat Carey:

I strongly support the call for further research, which should be ongoing anyway. Whatever the outcome, policy makers need to go back to 2007, when the NDRIC report was published. The recommendations in that report need to be implemented. They were not implemented, which has probably landed us where we are at this stage. We need targeted resources and more professionalisation of this sector as quickly as resources permit.