Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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Okay. Another issue I have, especially in my constituency and right across Dublin, is the issue of drug dealing. The local drug and alcohol task force in my own area, which I was a director on the past, does its best to assist people with addiction. The Garda members do their best to prevent and reduce the amount of drugs that end up on and are sold on our street. However, I return to an incident in Carlow Garda station where €100,000 worth of cannabis went missing. The Garda Síochána Inspectorate raised concerns regarding drugs going missing under Garda control and the need for an urgent review of evidence-storing practices in Garda stations. There were 69 suspensions at the end of April. How many of these current suspensions relate to issues such as confiscated drugs or other material going missing from Garda stations?