Cyprian Brady (Fianna Fail)

As Senator Minihan said, in the past week, the Garda drug unit seized literally tonnes of cannabis worth many hundreds of millions of euro. As any law enforcement agency will confirm, drug seizures only represent a very small proportion of the drugs that come into a country. I call for a debate with the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to discuss why the ten-year mandatory sentence for possession with intent to supply of over €10,000 worth of cannabis is not being enforced. It is on the Statute Book but to the best of my knowledge, very few, if any, drug dealers have fallen foul of this law. It is time we discussed it because the longer we wait the worse the problem will get.