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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)

Cormac Devlin: Mr. Gleeson and the other witnesses are all very welcome back to the committee. It is good to engage. I will pick up on that last point. I think Mr. Gleeson said earlier to Deputy Ó Cathasaigh that the Department does not know who owns the lands that the horses are on. 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)

Cormac Devlin: There are inspections being carried out, however.

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)

Cormac Devlin: It kind of puzzles me, given the concern that has been raised about all of this, that the horses we have a concern about could potentially still be under the control and guidance - I was going to say care - of the same individual who either operates, runs or owns the equine slaughterhouse. Is that true?

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)

Cormac Devlin: Does that not bother anybody in the Department? It is the same issue. I know Mr. Gleeson said he has read the file. From what I am hearing from the witnesses today, the Department is doing a root-and-branch review, as Mr. Gleeson said earlier, and that is understandable. However, from the committee's perspective, it makes no logical sense whatsoever to have the same individual, who is...

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)

Cormac Devlin: I understand 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)

Cormac Devlin: I should clarify that I am actually talking about process in general from the Department's perspective. In the face of any abuse, the individual or creature or whoever is of concern in minding those individuals or items, whatever it might be, I suggest there needs to be a review of that urgently, separate to what we are talking about. That has to be handled better, let us put it that way. ...

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)

Cormac Devlin: Okay. Mr. Gleeson said the inspections carried out on the equine slaughterhouse were on the curtilage, I think he said.

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)

Cormac Devlin: Noting it is the only one in the country, how long has that equine slaughterhouse been in operation?

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)

Cormac Devlin: Was there ever more than one equine slaughterhouse in the country in operation at any given time?

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)

Cormac Devlin: Why did the Kilkenny abattoir cease?

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)

Cormac Devlin: I hear what Mr. Gleeson is saying and I know it is a sensitive issue given the timeframe we are operating to right now, but if there were several slaughterhouses in operation and one slaughterhouse had a previous conviction or a conviction while in operation, does the current contract with the Department allow that same individual set up under a new name or a new entity and engage with a...

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)

Cormac Devlin: A licence or whatever it may be.