Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans on revisiting the listing of benzylpiperazine as a single addition to Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 and substituting a generic listing that will include BZP and all related substances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10678/10]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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Benzylpiperazine -1(BZP-1), which had been on sale in so-called 'head shops', was declared a controlled drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 in March 2009. The possession and sale of BZP-1 is illegal and subject to criminal sanctions. As part of the regulations which my Department are drafting this month to introduce controls on a range of substances which are currently on sale in head shops, I intend to include a generic definition of piperazines, which will control all piperazines, other than BZP-1, which is already controlled.