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THE BODY REPRESENTING the businesses of Temple Bar says that its resistance to supervised injection centres is about a lack of debate on the issue.
Plans for a bill that will establish a pilot injecting room are at an advanced stage and it is expected that it will be before the Dáil next year.
Members of drug treatment services will be before the Oireachtas Health Committee today, outlining why they believe the plan will work.
Advocates say that safe injection facilities (SIFs) reduce the harm associated with injecting drug use. They are supervised spaces where people can inject drugs in a clean and hygienic setting off the street. They are currently employed in a number of countries, including Switzerland, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Australia and Canada.
However, there has been some resistance to the plan, most notably in Dublin’s city centre. Martin Harte from the Temple Bar Company told TheJournal.ie that this resistance isn’t about having a facility on his doorstep.
“We’ve been told it will be placed in the city centre – but there’s been no consultation.
“All we’ve been asking is: let’s have a debate.
It’s not a case of: you put it on one street we’d be happy. It’s not NIMBY-ism. It’s about having a real debate on the issue.
Harte said that the international examples are not necessarily analogous with the Dublin case.
“The centres in Sydney and Vancouver are in very problematic areas. They’re not in the city centres.
“There’s also the issue of decriminalisation. If there is only one injection centre, to get your drugs there you have to be able to move in and out without being stopped and searched. Does that mean decriminalising an amount of drugs? That hasn’t been answered.”
He cited the Portuguese example wherein addicts are entitled to hold up to 10 days’ drugs. A similar amount here is likely to see a person treated as a drug dealer. He added
“Would that mean gardaí couldn’t deal with dealers? There’s a grey area there that hasn’t been debated. There are other angles there – what drugs can be used there? Who can use it?
“All we’re asking for is a debate. Of course there is a medical argument, of course there is, but there are other issues.”
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True heroes, we need their sort here in o Connell street urgently please.
@Lance Taylor: Holy Three Cups Challenge!
@Lance Taylor: brillant, I bet they never saw it coming !
@Lance Taylor: but our courts would probably rule against them under entrapment and allow them to be counter sued
What’s the difference between batman and a shoplifter..batman can go into a shop without Robin .
@larry smith: b’boom..tish!!
Keep em coming. Guys that were caught are huge on bridges in Paris.
@larry smith: Years ago when everything in stores was individually priced,you’d have robbers going in with a price gun “Hand over all the cash,or I’ll mark everything down in the shop”
@j m m: and Berlin , they operate in gangs of 6 or more
@Donough Tierney: Not all of them. 6 of one,half a dozen of the others
Hand me the lighter Rodney…im trying to see if there’s any petrol coming through to the engine!
@Dan The Man: your cramping my style , your cramping my style
Our lads dress as Panti Bliss and Bambie Thug
@Exhausted Jim: Weak. Even for a troll like you.
@Jack Hayes: no wonder he’s exhausted………
Rodney you plonker
@Joe Beirne: A certain episode of Only Fools And Horses does come to mind!
@Joe Beirne: His name’s Dave,Derek
@Larry Betts: if it’s a girl they’ll call her Sigourney after the actress Sigourney Weaver, and if it’s a boy they’ll call him Rodney, after Dave.
@Alex Marquis: only fools and horses an absolute classic, the chandelier or tea for three two very funny episodes.
@Joe Beirne: Where’d you get those 4 aces Delboy?
Both should be deported back to Romania
Some heroes wear capes.
KERCHOW!
@Mary Linton: tell us the one about the crematorium again.
@Philip Kennedy: Why? There’s no need to dig up the past. Forgive me for my grave sense of humour
Names sound like good old Roma gypsy trash Ireland is also now full of those total S. C. U. M
@Deadman Walking: betting with gypsies on a shell game . Good luck with that . Olympic standard stupidity .
They went across the bridge to seek their arch enemies
Only 2!
Last time I crossed Westminister bridge I seen at leat 10 groups of minimum 6 apiece, can’t see this making any difference tbh
That is awesome!
Bring on the scammers’ solicitors who will hopefully point out this wicked form of entrapment that the defendants are being subjected to. Have the police no sense of shame?
hand me down the shark-repellent bat spray
This all sounds like a carry on movie spoof
Del! (Punches fist) let’s go!
Are people still falling for the 3-cups scam?
Brilliant
I suppose it’s better than taking to the roller blades.
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