silver bullet

A proposed trial to install a waste needle bin in Belfast city centre is not a "silver bullet" but one step to dealing with drugs issues in the city, a councillor has said.

Privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch says age check technology "shouldn't be seen as a silver bullet solution".

Ministers have insisted there is no single "silver bullet" for solving the problem of illegal migration and the latest scheme is only one of a number of options being considered.

There’s no silver bullet available, although raising taxes on the rich and raising the minimum wage would help a great deal.

But he warned there was not a "silver bullet response" or "some policy lever that can be pulled".