Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Page 95 of the programme for Government states the Government will continue to work with the Garda on tackling and interrupting organised crime. I want to ask about a tweet sent out over the weekend by Fianna Fáil Deputy, Barry Cowen, that eulogised the man held responsible by many people for flooding Dublin with heroin in the 1980s. The tweet stated, "Reminded of Larry Dunne famously remarking 'if you think we're bad, wait till you see what's coming after us'". The heroin epidemic wiped out large parts of Dublin and whole generations of young people in the 1980s. Many grandmothers were left rearing their grandchildren because their own children were wiped out by this scourge. Does the Taoiseach stand over the comments made by Deputy Barry Cowen? How does he feel about Fianna Fáil being likened to an organised crime gang with him as the leader? Will he instruct Deputy Cowen to do a U-turn on this matter?

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