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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)
Gino Kenny: I thank the commander. It is very refreshing to hear a police officer speaking very frankly about this issue. I have just one question on the illicit market for illegal drugs. Portugal has been more progressive in this regard than Ireland. On the flip side, the illicit market in Ireland is controlled by a number of very violent and powerful criminal gangs. What is the situation in...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)
Gino Kenny: I thank Mr. Leitão da Silva.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)
Gino Kenny: I thank Mr. Glynn and Dr. Ó Concubhair for their opening statements. My first question is for Dr. Ó Concubhair. This debate has probably evolved in the past five or six years in terms of where people are at, both politicians and the public. We have progressed to a point where people are thinking about alternatives to what we have had in the past six decades, which was a complete...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)
Gino Kenny: I 100% agree. That is my concern in terms of where this debate is going. Some of us in the committee have those concerns. There is opposition from the top down, and from the bottom up, in terms of where we want to go. When the dust settles on what the committee agrees, the next Government will have to deal with it. There is still huge conservatism among the powers that be, particularly...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)
Gino Kenny: My question is about a parallel universe but I will pose it anyway. We all agree alcohol is an accepted drug, whether in Britain or Ireland, for better or for worse. It is accepted, taxed, readily available and marketed very cleverly by alcohol companies. There are obviously health consequences to alcohol consumption, particularly dependency, and it will kill tens of thousands of people,...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)
Gino Kenny: Surely the lesson is that the war on drugs has been an absolute failure.
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will stay with that issue. Did the person who was operating that abattoir have prior convictions?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We are not referring to a live court case.
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Was the conviction for animal cruelty?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The building did not inflict the cruelty.
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: A prior conviction was not enough for alarm bells to ring with the deputy veterinary officer. Would that not invite an additional level of oversight when it had already been established?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Department has subsequently taken the horses and moved them to different land. Is that correct?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: They have been moved and the land is under the ownership of the person who owns the abattoir.
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Are the lands where the horses are now owned by the person who operated the abattoir?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Considering the level of cruelty that was inflicted on those animals, the idea that they are still in the care of the person involved does not sit well with me.
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Going back to the statement of the deputy chief veterinary officer last week, Mr. Gleeson said he would be happy to furnish the committee with a report on a deep dive into all this. Internal Department correspondence will come under the spotlight. It will be gone through with a fine-tooth comb. Were any issues raised by members of the Department before?