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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: There is a lot in the question and a lot in the answer. At the root of it, however, similar to my colleague, Deputy Quinlivan, is the concern about what we are hearing with regard to the readiness of the industry here, whether we look at ports, planning, the grid or supply chain. It is a statement of fact at this stage to say that none of our phase 1 offshore wind farms will be developed on...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (11 Jul 2024)
Dara Calleary: I assure the Deputy that we are making very detailed progress in our Department in terms of Powering Prosperity through skills and job and supply chain opportunities. That is acknowledged by the groups with which we are engaging. As the Deputy knows, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications has responsibility for future auctions and grid development. The Minister,...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: I thank the superintendent for being with us and for his work in this area. We visited Portugal a number of years ago and I met a lot of people there who were involved in this project and the policy, which was very impressive. We had a presentation earlier this week from police from Vancouver and someone from the United States about places where there was decriminalisation. It seemed to...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: Would Mr. Leitão da Silva therefore recommend that if we were to bring in decriminalisation in Ireland that we treat it in a similar way to alcohol, meaning the use of drugs in a public place, as I described earlier, would not be permitted?
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: Okay. It seems in Vancouver and Oregon, the use of drugs in public places derailed the decriminalisation. That was what I understood from the presentation earlier in the week. People were very unsettled and upset. There was a description of people being at the beach with their children and somebody next door visibly using drugs.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: That seems to have derailed the thing. When I was in Lisbon all those years ago, I made an inquiry with police officers at the time about how it often appears that if you walk down the street you are offered substances. People approach tourists and others and offer substances in small bags. I was told by the police at the time that a lot of that was bogus, fake and not real.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: A person would not know whether it was or not, but the story here in Ireland is tourists and others are assailed on the streets of Lisbon and other cities with this behaviour. Will Mr. Leitão da Silva comment on that?
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: It gives a very poor picture of Lisbon and cities in Portugal for tourists and others here. When it reaches our airwaves, people talk about it and use it as a reason for not decriminalising. They blame decriminalisation for this, and a liberal approach.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: That is fine. I cannot see the clock from here. I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: The Chair might tell me when my ten minutes are up, as I do not have access to a clock. I welcome our two guests and thank them very much for their thought-provoking and sincere presentations. Dr. Ó Concubhair mentioned the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which mandates signatory states to pursue a criminal justice-led response on drug use and drug markets. I...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)
David Stanton: I thank Dr. Ó Conchubhair. As I said earlier to our previous guest, one of the issues about which we learnt earlier this week was that when the use of drugs was decriminalised in British Columbia and Vancouver, and also in parts of the United States, it seemed to initially go too far in that it permitted people to use drugs publicly on the streets straight away, which led to a backlash...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Catherine Murphy: I wish everyone a good morning. It is infuriating when you have a witness in front of you and discover you have not received a fair response. In this case, it is fortunate that the witnesses are here a couple of weeks after the representatives of Horse Racing Ireland and the IHRB were before the committee. That is the context. A Department official was here. It is infuriating to have to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Catherine Murphy: Surely, fit and proper person in the case of animal welfare is key. It does not matter if the walls of this slaughterhouse were paved with gold; it is how the process is conducted. Animal welfare has to be a central piece to that. Mr. Gleeson talked about vets who have an interest in animal welfare. How would that not be interpreted as a requirement?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Catherine Murphy: After the event. Is there an age requirement for an animal welfare officer?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Catherine Murphy: If the Department were to go to court with someone who was under 18 who was the animal welfare officer, would the court question their age and whether they had the legal standing because of their age?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Catherine Murphy: Could it have been the case that they were under 18?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Catherine Murphy: This is supposed to be a position of high responsibility. It is supposed to be somebody who is trained, accredited and all of that. What does the accreditation process require?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Catherine Murphy: Can Mr. Gleeson provide us with the detail on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024) Catherine Murphy: Regarding the licence for Shannonside, was there an amendment to the area that was covered from one licence to the next? Did it, for example, include the lairage?