Mr. Cathal O'Regan:

-----personal possession that would be an offence under the supply and distribution legislation.

There is a version of decriminalisation that is equivalent to legalisation. That version is something the citizens' assembly voted against. What it voted for instead was a comprehensive health-led approach, which is not legalisation. There is still an offence. The nature of that offence has to be defined but there is still an offence under law. Possession of drugs would remain illegal and prohibited. It is just that the way it is dealt with by the State changes, as Mr. Reid said, from a criminal justice-led approach to a health intervention-led approach.