Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 October 2024
Committee on Drugs Use
A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. Justin Kelly:
That is a very good point. An Garda Síochána is only one part of this situation. What Detective Chief Superintendent Boland and I concentrate on is the supply level end of it and the violence that comes with that. Without going into detail, particularly where there are deaths and murders, we put so much work into that. We have in excess of 50 people from one of the main organised criminal groups serving sentences. The reason we put so much work into that particular group is because as the Senator says, they were the ones inflicting that violence here in Dublin.