Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 June 2024

Committee on Drugs Use

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Graham O'Neill:

From the citizens' assembly members' point of view, Mr. Reid mentioned there was a wide range of presentations that dealt with issues of the status quo right through to legalisation. The big takeaway was that at the end of the day we wanted to step away from the status quo, so the members do not want things to remain the same. We had the presentations and decided they had not dealt with the issue, very much as the Deputy mentioned in his statement. It has been this way for however long and clearly is not working. It was something the members definitely agreed on, that the status quo cannot remain the same.