David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Lawlor. I will tease out this further with respect to the amount that people could buy and whether they could go from one pharmacy to another and get as much as they needed. There are other issues around that.

I totally agree with the other issue that Ms Lawlor brought up here with respect to the Garda youth diversion programme. I set in place the youth justice strategy which we have working here now. If we have more resources there, it certainly will be of huge benefit to everybody.

Professor Stevens mentioned the problems with respect to the quantity of drugs that might be on the threshold with respect to diversion. In Portugal, they have a list: heroin, 1 g; methadone, 1 g; morphine, 2 g; opium, 10 g; etc. Does Professor Stevens know how they came up with that amount and how is it working? The list I referred to is the list they had in 2015. Is it still the same?