Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Joint Committee on Drugs Use published its interim report yesterday. There will be a general election in the next few weeks so this is essentially its final report. This has been a very good committee. It has been very important in looking at different models of drugs policy and saving lives. This is the most important thing. The committee took into account the recommendations of the citizens' assembly as well as our own. There is political consensus on this. There are a variety of views, but many people have shifted their opinion in respect of how we got it wrong in the past. People will ask what is next. We have had the citizens' assembly and this very integral report, where there is consensus on doing things differently and on what we can do differently. If the Taoiseach is in the Government the next time, what does he plan to do about implementing this report?

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