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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDeputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOpen drug dealing is a scourge in our communities and there is an inadequate and weak response from the government and An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na. They are more than aware of the extent of the problem but seem reluctant to act, maybe\u00a0due to resources or operational reasons, and close it down.<\/p>
\u201cI have been involved in the local\u00a0Drugs Taskforce practically since it was established. I have highlighted drug problems since the early days of the heroin epidemic in Dublin. I have long campaigned for\u00a0supports and resources for communities and\u00a0those with a drug addiction. I have to say, that I have never before seen the scale of drugs that is currently being openly sold in our communities. Yet there are less members in the Tallaght Drugs Unit now\u00a0than there was 10 years ago.<\/p>
\u201cI told the Minister about constituents who every night have drug dealers gather outside their homes to sell heroin or cocaine, including crack cocaine. That they have had to move children from their bedrooms because they can\u2019t sleep with the shouting and noise from cars pulling up and speeding away.<\/p>
\u201cI told him about shop owners who have to close early because of drug dealing in front of their shops. I told him of a young person growing up looking at open drug dealing in their communities and passing drug paraphernalia that is littering their communities on the way to school. I spoke of the alarming normalisation of drug taking and drug.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Crowe continued:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe need a change of strategy from the government and a new urgency to tackle this\u00a0growing problem.\u00a0 Even former Drugs Ministers are\u00a0now saying that the drugs strategy is failing and the drugs epidemic is escalating. <\/p>
\u201cI want to see a range of new supports made available for communities to fight back. Communities feel left behind. We need to empower people and to encourage communities, but they need to know you have their back.\u00a0<\/p>
\u201cThis problem cannot be addressed without the support and involvement of communities.<\/p>
\u201cNew thinking and new strategies, and a whole new approach, is needed if we are to begin the fight back against open drug dealing in our communities. In view of the scale of the challenge, residents want to see action from government and the Garda\u00ed, not more of\u00a0the same.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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Dublin South West TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, has called for more government action to tackle the scourge of open drug dealing in his constituency. The Sinn F\u00e9in TD raised the issue with the Minister for Justice,\u00a0Charlie Flanagan, in the D\u00e1il this week. Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said: \u201cOpen drug dealing is a scourge in our communities and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4013,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/4013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}