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:

Yes. There are nuances in different countries - different drugs may be more popular, there are different things going on or different gang methodologies - but generally it is similar. If there is an organised crime group in Slovenia and we have one in Ireland, the police there target it the same way we do. It is easy to do joint operations. We run joint operations constantly. To emphasise, it is not quarterly meeting stuff. Quarterly meetings are at a high level looking at strategy, resources and finances - at a EU Commission-type-level - whereas we try to sort out some of the less-----