Cabinet Committees
Dail Éireann — 2021-09-28
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

My view is that if there is no alternative and the 72-year-old is hale and hearty, then common sense should prevail and provision should be made for it.
In terms of a citizens' assembly on drugs, I will come back to the Deputy on that, because now that we are coming out of Covid, we might be in a position to accelerate that. We said we would identify three areas for citizens' assemblies. One was the mayoral situation in Dublin and another was drugs. I take the Deputy's point about the decriminalisation of drug users. It is well made. The point that this is fundamentally a health issue as opposed to a justice issue is also well made.

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Sitting date: 2021-09-28