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- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: They are the people who know how their lives work and they can inform that policy.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I have some questions for the Prison Service. My questions will be intensely practical because I am trying to understand how the prisons work with regard to testing, access to naloxone and the issue of the recent mass overdose. We heard from other contributors at this committee that there is always a struggle to get suitable testing on site for anything, whether it relates to festivals or a...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Is that May of this year?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: How does the Prison Service access the substances for testing?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Do the prisoners consent to that?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: That is not really consent.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Has the Prison Service explored ways of testing that would allow for a consent-based process?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: The Prison Service is testing the person. I was asking whether it tests the substance.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: What is the average? Is it three weeks or six weeks?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It takes three months to get a substance tested.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I want to take a moment to repeat that. If there is a crisis moment where somebody is significantly impacted by the use of drugs, and it is to the point where the Prison Service has tested, it can be done in 48 hours.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: If not, and if the Prison Service just finds or accesses a substance, it can take three months. That is crazy.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: In terms of the business of the committee, I suggest that a specific and useful thing would be to back up the Prison Service on access to substance testing that does not take three months.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizenship Applications (26 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: I wish to refer to correspondence that came in to Deputy Pa Daly's office. It came from an Irishman who is married to a man who does not have Irish citizenship. His husband had exceeded the wait time considerably and he was in contact with a number of others who were in the same situation. Many people received emails from the Department of Justice stating that there was a delay but that...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizenship Applications (26 Sep 2024)
James Browne: I acknowledge that in the past there were significant delays in processing citizenship applications. What the Minister, the officials in the Department and I have done to streamline matters and introduce a new processing system with the online application form and e-vetting has led to a significant change in the processing time relating to citizenship applications. I am confident that by...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizenship Applications (26 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: That is very positive, and it should be the aim. It is a matter of making sure it happens. Regarding workflows in the Department, there have been backlogs in respect of a number of immigration permissions. The Minister of State referred to citizenship applications and the processing of asylum applications. The numbers have risen in all these areas. I suppose only so much can be done...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizenship Applications (26 Sep 2024)
James Browne: Significant work is being done in the Department to ensure that all applications, be they in respect of citizenship, asylum or whatever, are dealt with in a speedy and timely fashion. It is acknowledged that significant work needed to be done in this area. This work is being carried out.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Policing Authority (26 Sep 2024)
Policing Authority
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Policing Authority (26 Sep 2024)
Denis Naughten: 4. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to support policing in rural communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34856/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Policing Authority (26 Sep 2024)
Denis Naughten: According to an Irish Examiner-IPSOS poll that was published last week, 70% of people who live in rural Ireland do not believe that there is a visible Garda presence in their areas. Members of the public believe that improved visibility can deter crime. How does the Government propose to increase visible rural policing?