An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2023-09-26
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. The Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, in her role as Minister of State with responsibility for the national drugs strategy, leads on this issue, but it is a cross-government effort. We are taking action in terms of increasing services around addiction, which is really important. Drug use has changed and people are addicted to different substances than would have been the case in the past, and polydrug use is a much bigger issue as well. I think we will see that there is a very strong response from the Garda, our Naval Service and others, which is evident off the coast of Wexford today.

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