Mr. Eddie D'Arcy:

Decriminalisation means different things to different people. We have to be very careful as we go down that route. Decriminalisation is not necessarily about increasing or decreasing the number of young people or people in general using drugs. In fact, many of us would say that everybody in Ireland who wants to smoke weed is probably smoking weed. There might be 10% who are a bit worried because they are a school principal or they work in the Department of Justice and if they get caught, it would have repercussions for their job.