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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.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I might go back to some of the practicalities around receiving treatment as well as the requirement for urine analysis, which is something we discussed last week as well. It seems we have a model that is trying to catch people out. Ms Kearney spoke about that earlier. It is about catching people out and putting them on the spot. I am wondering about service users' rights and how we get...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Is there a peer-led aspect to that?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: It works in other jurisdictions. Somebody who has been through it walks another person through.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Yet we are not taking them on board.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: That is crazy. Will Ms Kearney speak a little about peer-to-peer experience, bringing somebody through and that culture, especially when someone is pregnant? Even when you are not a drug user and you go in as a young person who is pregnant there is a bit of feeling like you had better be on your best behaviour.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Any information you share can be used against you.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: To relive it over and over again.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Peer-led is a very cost efficient way of doing it. Is that correct?

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)

Paul McAuliffe: To clarify that, the witnesses are saying this is a support project that is part of the annual operating costs of the university as opposed to a project that was set out that has now overrun?