Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My constituents should be able to go to their local shop to buy a newspaper or a pint of milk without having to pass through a gang of drug dealers. They should be able to go to their local medical centre without having to witness drug dealers buying or selling drug prescriptions from patients leaving the doctor's surgery. They should be able to go to their local post office without having to witness the drug dealers handing out children's allowance books to mothers who supposedly have a drug debt. The mothers collect the payment and then hand back the book. Children should be able to go to school without having to witness drug deals going down at the school gates, but this is happening. Children should not be going to sleep hungry, but this is also happening in my constituency. Many of them would not be fed if not for food parcels. My constituents who are in recovery and rehabilitation should not have to pass drug dealers outside the very services they attend for counselling and addiction supports.

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