Drug Dealing
Dail Éireann — 2021-03-11
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John Lahart (FF), Dublin South-West

I mentioned in my opening remarks that every Department - and I named them - needs to come to the table, to meet the drugs task forces and to make sure that the people who traditionally sat around this table but who have fallen away over the years get back to it. I welcome the Minister of State's comments about drug seizures but, with regard to the Criminal Assets Bureau, what could be more symbolic a gesture than the money found in the boot of a car on the Firhouse Road being returned to the community that is fighting drugs? I ask the Minister of State to make the case for finding a procedure to allow proceeds of the drugs trade found and seized by the bureau to be returned to the community to fight the scourge of drugs.

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Sitting date: 2021-03-11