Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 June 2024
Committee on Drugs Use
Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion
9:30 am
Mr. Paul Reid:
It is certainly under test now. The presentations we had at the assembly are all that I can go on. There was a range of views from “Let us hold where we are now because things are okay”, to “We have to do something completely different because we are not addressing the fundamental issues”. There was a range of views from the statutory bodies, including An Garda Síochána, the HSE, the Department of Justice and the Department of Health. It went from one end of the continuum at “Let us tweak what we have” to our view, which was “No, let us leapfrog two steps further.”