Results 1-20 of 62 for drugs speaker:Paul McAuliffe
- Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: ...things that the witnesses have spoken about because most of us have lived experience or been educated by many of the groups in our areas about those issues. I acknowledge the youth services and drugs task force in my area, which are fantastic at feeding that stuff in to us and trying to convert it into a policy. I will focus on some more detailed questions. It is not that I do not...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: ...On young people being referred to services through the Garda referral process, what is Mr. Ducque's experience of criminal association with addiction or involvement in the sale or distribution of drugs? How does that get in the way of working with young people? Does it get in the way?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: ...all in the same space, sometimes we are preaching to the converted, so I want to ask some questions people who are not engaged might ask to get them into the report and the record. The issue of drug-related intimidation and drug debt is a really interesting one because obviously if we were to go for a health-led approach or a decriminalised approach as opposed to a legalisation...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: ..., in some ways that is more of a threat to it than is the substance. In some ways, this debate does not deal with any of that and others would say the way forward is to fully legalise and regulate drugs and so on. Among the Irish public, and even within the House, people are very reluctant to do that because what they do not want to do is ti replace it with the huge corporate capital...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Even if no change is made, a lot of people will ask why not put more people through the drugs court; why is it not operating nationally,; why do we not do more and is that model not used more? Will the witnesses answer some of those questions?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: ...find, and it was part of the dual diagnosis report conducted by the Finglas Addiction Support Team, FAST, and DCU, that so much of the two issues are interlinked. From the witnesses' work in the drugs court, and Mr. Duffin's at Ana Liffey, will they paint a picture of how much of a role mental health plays in the area of addiction?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: ...system is involved in someone's recovery, has impaired the ability of the person to recover? I am thinking of a direct comparison between people seeking recovery from alcohol or from an illegal drug. I know polydrug use makes it more complicated but I am thinking about those two pure streams. Somebody who is trying to seek recovery from alcohol does not have to deal with the criminal...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: I am thinking of the two legal drugs we have, namely, methadone and alcohol.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: No, but my question is whether the journey to recovery is made easier for methadone and alcohol than it is for illegal drugs, not because of the chemical structure of the substance but because the criminal nature of the substance is not there.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: ...what is in Mr. Leitão da Silva's statement but I want to bring in some questions, from a policing perspective, that perhaps people might ask who are sceptical. For many people when they see open drug dealing in a street, it makes them feel less safe. When they see people using drugs, they feel less safe. There is a lot of hypocrisy there because if they see people drinking alcohol...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: ...Many are taking that approach to this discussion, including the citizens’ assembly. I wish to discuss the citizens’ assembly, whose report has been laid before us for debate. Given the national drugs strategy and the assembly’s recommendations, where does the Department of Justice stand on the development of policy and what is the way forward for us in terms of...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: ...’s recommendations, assuming that is what we decide to do. How can the Department assist us? Perhaps it would be as micro as assisting us in drafting the wording of policies around the Misuse of Drugs Act and so on. I would like us to work with the Department during this process rather than it be a case of us presenting bullet points that then sit in a Minister’s office...
- Anniversary of the Introduction of the Smoking Ban: Statements (11 Apr 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: ...to the body and, in fact, we missed him this morning. I wish him well in his role, in particularly with regard to public health and considering the recommendations of the citizens' assembly on drugs, which I will come back to. It is interesting that Deputy Smith spoke about the role of the trade union movement in terms of the smoking ban. What is often forgotten is that it is not a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Paul McAuliffe: ...love to see a methodology. Population is a factor, as is the level of crime. It should not be based on historic numbers in a station. The report states that between 2011 and 2020 the number of drugs offences doubled. This means gardaí on the ground have to do double the work and double the processing but they do not have double the numbers.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Paul McAuliffe: Divisional drugs teams are contained in the overall number of gardaí in a division. Is that true?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024) Paul McAuliffe: .... They can be removed and destroyed, so they will not be going back out on the streets. I ask the Commissioner to keep going with that work. E-scooters are being used as a mode of distribution by drugs gangs. I ask that An Garda Síochána also takes on board the provisions in the legislation that prevent underage children using e-scooters, e-scooters travelling above the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: ...pursue without continuously saying "Yes" to pharma companies, and not resorting to patients having to advocate in the way that we do. We have to have a more humane version of the HTA process. The drugs that are put through that process have to be more available to patients while, at the same time, we seek to secure the best value for money for the taxpayer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: ...that the Government would continue to do that for gardaí to allow them to deliver further results. I also note the concerns where gardaí say that these bikes are being used in the sale of illegal drugs, and that not only are scramblers being used but also e-scooters, often by very young children. I thank the Taoiseach for his personal support with regard to the changes on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I may come back to that in a later round of questions. On the previous occasion our guests were before the committee, I pushed very heavily on the roll-out of the north inner city drug and alcohol task force. I welcome the announcement this week that John Costello is going to chair the implementation board in Ballymun. The witnesses will know that my next question is going to be about...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (13 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: ..., as we have been promised. We want to ensure that issues that are unique to our area are addressed, like the provision of early school leaving solutions, the recruitment of senior social workers, open drug dealing blackspots and the designing out of places of antisocial behaviour. These are all issues that I know the Taoiseach wants to solve. I ask that decision-makers from the Civil...