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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Martin Kenny: Drugs gangs operate in most of our deprived communities. This is a reflection of how the Government's policy has consistently fallen short. A recent report published by the EU drugs agency and Interpol indicates that the drugs distribution networks in Ireland appear to be structured in three layers. There is a small top layer of serious players who control the upper end of the market....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...agree with them. This is an urgent issue that relates to social policy and health policy, as well as to security and criminal justice. It is intended to review the implementation of the national drugs strategy at the next Cabinet sub-committee meeting on social policy. Reference was made to the Building Community Resilience report by Dr. Johnny Connolly. I welcomed the publication...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Michael Moynihan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if the policy discussions on drug gangs take place at the Cabinet committee on social policy and public services or the Cabinet committee on security. [50087/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if the policy discussions on drug gangs take place at the Cabinet committee on social policy and public services or the Cabinet committee on security. [51822/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee at which policy discussions on drug gangs take place; and when it last met. [52728/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 6 to 8, inclusive, together. The Cabinet committee on security is the most appropriate Cabinet committee to discuss policy related to drug gangs, as it deals with issues related to justice, community safety and policing reform. The Cabinet committee on security last met on 30 October. Separate from that, however, I met Commissioner Harris on 3 December...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: I suggest that the whole issue of drug gangs is also appropriate to the Cabinet committee on social policy and public services. Recent reporting about the scale and activities of drug gangs in Dublin, and increasingly throughout the country, has confirmed what I and my party have been saying for several years, namely, that there is a new and sinister level of drug activity taking hold and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Joan Burton: ...of bringing to the House a large group of men and women who are involved in the Coolmine therapeutic programmes. We had a conversation about what ages people were when they started to use drugs. These are people who have devoted many years of their lives to trying to quit drugs and become clean. In a great number of cases, their involvement with drugs started when they dropped out of...