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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services (3 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: As I said yesterday, I welcome every single additional cent that is put into any area of healthcare, particularly cardiac services. We will wait to see exactly what funding is being allocated and from where before we pass full judgment on that. As the Minister stated, the genesis of this review was a meeting with the then Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, attended by me, Deputy...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: I also have two other committees at the same time. We learn the skill of bilocation very quickly in this place. I have read some of the opening statements and I am aware of some of the contributions made earlier. I have limited time and I want to hear from the witnesses. In terms of pursuing a change through decriminalisation, depenalisation or legalisation, will the witnesses give...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: The question was whether the criminal element, or the element of it being illegal, impairs their recovery.
- 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: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: As the previous Chair said here once, you cannot stop people making moral judgements but you can stop making policy based on moral judgements.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: That is the beginning of the journey. We need to change that and the criminal sanction is an impairment to recovery. I should say happy recovery month and well done on all the work on that. The other end of the spectrum is full legalisation, allow a commercial model regulate and have a for-profit element as with any other product. I hear what Mr. Mullins says, because there is a fear,...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: They are very different, yes.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: If I might ask one last question which is difficult to ask of a big group. I think there is consensus on the point that the criminal element has an impact. Is there consensus that legalisation would be the ultimate solution here? It is a big question.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Chairman, to be fair to my colleague, because I asked a big question, maybe I will take the answer from someone in the next round.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Senator Fitzpatrick asked a question that I threw in at the very end too.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024) Cormac Devlin: I welcome the witnesses. At the outset, I will say that we seldom have such a stark report and statement from the C and AG, but given the severity of the issues at stake here, the witnesses are back five months later to discuss these accounts. Speaking of accounts and echoing what the C and AG's opening statement discussed, what is the status of the 2022 and 2023 accounts today?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024) Cormac Devlin: When were they due to be? Surely, the witnesses have a timeframe for PwC.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024) Cormac Devlin: Is there any particular reason for that apart from the obvious one of why the witnesses are here today?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024) Cormac Devlin: From the perspective of the committee and on this point, I would argue that within five months of today, the witnesses might be back before us to discuss matters when the Comptroller and Auditor General gets the report done on those accounts given what we are discussing at length here today and just last May. I think we will need to look at those accounts in more detail. Turning to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024) Cormac Devlin: Yes, please.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024) Cormac Devlin: I appreciate that and that is true. In terms of the reforms that have been done, therefore, and this may be a query for Professor Kilcommins to speak to, I know they are under way and the report from Deloitte is dealing with that aspect, if I am not mistaken. The report from Mazars, then, is dealing with the cultural aspect.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024) Cormac Devlin: In terms of the protected disclosures, because it was alluded to in the opening statements, how many have there been since 2018?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick
Special Report No. 117 of the Comptroller Auditor General: University of Limerick Property Acquisitions in Limerick City (3 Oct 2024) Cormac Devlin: In the last year.