Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Much of this will lie with the Department of Justice, given the way we have criminalised addiction and so on. One of the challenges is trying to operationalise the citizens’ assembly’s recommendations, assuming that is what we decide to do. How can the Department assist us? Perhaps it would be as micro as assisting us in drafting the wording of policies around the Misuse of Drugs Act and so on. I would like us to work with the Department during this process rather than it be a case of us presenting bullet points that then sit in a Minister’s office before being developed. How can we work together on whatever strategy we choose to ensure that the legal proposals we make are robust and stand up?