In Part Two of a three-part series, the journal.ie FactCheck series looks into a claim by Dublin City Councillor Mannix Flynn, during a debate on Tonight With Vincent Browne.
THE GOVERNMENT IS advancing legislation to allow for the creation of supervised injection facilities (SIFs), where drug users can legally inject drugs in a medically-supervised centre.
Naturally, the debate around this proposal has intensified, and on TV3′s Tonight With Vincent Browne last week, there was a robust back-and-forth between Catherine Byrne, the minister in charge of the plan, and Dublin City councillor Mannix Flynn, who is opposed to it.
There were a few very noteworthy factual claims, so we’ve broken this into three parts.
Yesterday, we examined Minister of State Byrne’s claim that, contrary to widespread contention, there are 787 detox beds in Ireland.
Tonight, we’re checking Mannix Flynn’s claim that SIFs do not reduce drug-related crime.
And on Monday night, we’ll take a look at his claim that SIFs do not reduce drug-related deaths.
Source: thejournal.ie, 19/02/2017
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