John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)

On the seizures, the Garda would say that currently crystal meths is not a major feature of the Irish drug market. There were two seizures, the one the Deputy mentioned in the midlands, which was considered a major seizure, and a second seizure in the south of the country. Crystal meths must be dealt with as one of the illegal substances with which we deal. There will be an action, under the new national drugs strategy, to deal with the issue of precursors.

It is important that the actions we take to try to deal with the situation are taken on a European wide basis, rather than having a different strategy here to what the rest of Europe might have. The 2009-12 EU drugs action plan will be supported by this country so that we have a co-ordinated, rather than an individual, response.

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