Ms Ruby Lawlor:

When it comes to drug checking or drug testing, this needs to happen now under any model that we are talking about. We can do drug checking. It is the best way, under the current model we have for drugs in Ireland, to combat the overdose crisis and stop all these deaths. This can happen now. It can happen under any model it can happen and better because it would be more accessible if people are not afraid of being criminalised. It needs to happen now, however. It can work under the current model.