Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

A new 50-bed community nursing unit is being built at a cost of €13 million and will be completed this year. There is also a whole range of urban renewal and rural community development funds that are putting money into towns across the length and breadth of the country, including Clonmel.

On drug dealing and addiction generally, we have a challenge in the country and not just in Clonmel. It is an area on which we need renewed focus. We need a multidsiciplinary response to the issue. I read reports this morning, for example, about worrying new synthetic drugs that are coming onto the market and which could be very serious for the country. The fentanyl crisis in the United States and Canada is quite shocking. The situation is bad enough here as it is but we need to be focused on the potential for a worsening situation that could emerge.

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