Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for accommodating me. I agree that the only way to deal with this is to hit them where it hurts, that is, in the pocket. CAB has done a lot of good work on it. It seems to me often that the focus of CAB is on the people whose names feature on the front page of the Sunday World every weekend. However, there is a need to get involved at a community level as well. Across the broader community where I live, I can think of several people who openly and unashamedly deal drugs and do so in broad daylight. They do not get up and go out to work like the rest of us during the day. They stay at home. They have every sort of lavish luxury imaginable parked up on their driveway and inside their house. Their neighbours live in absolute fear. Windows have been put in by iron bars and houses have been burned down. We have had everything going on. We need to hit those people financially and go after them because a lot of the time they seem to act with impunity.

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