Results 421-440 of 1,032,320 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Matt Shanahan OR speaker:Seán Haughey OR speaker:Imelda Munster)
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)
Matt Shanahan: If I make a point given that Professor Stevens mentioned tobacco, which I was going to mention, we have a particular problem in this country with the rise in vaping. Vaping was put forward as a substitute for tobacco and a way to get off it. We now have teenagers starting vaping who have never smoked cigarettes. We have seen issues with commercialising a substance when society decides it...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)
Matt Shanahan: We have people who are functioning alcoholics and we may have functioning people on opioids who are in employment. Are the toxicity and rate of dependency not generally higher as you get up to the harder drugs?
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)
Matt Shanahan: That is as an interdiction to opiate use.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)
Matt Shanahan: What Professor Stevens just said is as an interdiction to opiate use. I am talking about people who are actually taking opiates or who are dependent on opiates or any other drugs.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)
Matt Shanahan: Is the point that their drug use is being medically regulated and they are being medically treated?
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)
Matt Shanahan: I am talking about those who are not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: Reference was made to post-campaign analysis of whether a campaign has succeeded and resulted in value for money. Is it just post-campaign analysis that is done or are there key performance indicators concerning, for example, the level of seatbelt wearing? Are they available for public scrutiny?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: I would imagine the same applies to drug driving at this stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: Obviously, Ms O’Connor has seen an increase in that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: A new ad is not coming until December.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: Is there not a sense of urgency about this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: I suggest urgency.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: How is seatbelt-wearing gauged? Is there a way of gauging whether a seatbelt campaign has worked or got through to the public?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: Could he be very brief and furnish the committee with information on monitoring over the years, on success and failure, and what works and does not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: Could we be furnished with that information? Those are very interesting statistics. Obviously, Mr. Rowland will continue to monitor the trend and consider means of getting the message out even more. I want to move on to driver testing. On average, the waiting time for a driver test is 14 weeks to 16 weeks. Among the reasons given for this are a reduced workforce owing to staff...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: We have all that information. Could Mr. Waide just answer the specific questions, please?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: Does the RSA not have permanent ones?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: The Department allowed only temporary ones.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: Have the Department and the Minister not budged on that as yet?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Road Safety Authority (27 Jun 2024)
Imelda Munster: Of the contracts that have not been renewed, what is the reason they have not automatically been renewed, given the shortage and also that the testers have been doing the work for years and, therefore, also have experience?