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Irish Committee Calls for Drug Decriminalisation, Health-Led Strategy

6/24/2026

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The Oireachtas Committee on Drugs issued a final report recommending decriminalisation of personal drug possession and linking it to a health-led strategy.
The report urges councils to adopt bylaws restricting public drug use like alcohol rules and to create mobile consumption sites and national harm-reduction campaigns.
Prime Minister Micheál Martin, citing 15,422 treatment cases in 2025 and two decades of health-led policy, said the government will consider the report seriously.

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The Oireachtas Committee on Drugs issued a final report recommending decriminalisation of personal drug possession and linking it to a health-led strategy.
The report urges councils to adopt bylaws restricting public drug use like alcohol rules and to create mobile consumption sites and national harm-reduction campaigns.
Prime Minister Micheál Martin, citing 15,422 treatment cases in 2025 and two decades of health-led policy, said the government will consider the report seriously.