Results 1-20 of 67 for drugs speaker:Paul McAuliffe

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Agreed. Ultimately, I know, that cash is lodged to the Exchequer at the end of court proceedings. Very substantial figures have been transferred by the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau. I think I saw a figure of €30 million. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Harris will understand that the risk of potential fraud for a bank note is entirely different than the risk in respect of illegal drugs or a firearm. Cash is very transferable. It is legal tender.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Local Drugs Task Forces (13 May 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: ...for Health to indicate how the recent funding announcement of €1.89 million through the Community Service Enhancement Fund will be distributed, and whether it will be allocated to community-based drug area task forces or to the HSE directly. [24098/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (10 Apr 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 410. To ask the Minister for Health her progress to date in making a drug (details supplied) available for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18287/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (19 Mar 2025)

Paul McAuliffe: 1471. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to increase funding for drugs task forces; if this funding will be ringfenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10588/25]

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...things that the witnesses have spoken about because most of us have lived experience or been educated by many of the groups in our areas about those issues. I acknowledge the youth services and drugs task force in my area, which are fantastic at feeding that stuff in to us and trying to convert it into a policy. I will focus on some more detailed questions. It is not that I do not...

Committee on Drugs Use: Family and Community: Discussion (24 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...On young people being referred to services through the Garda referral process, what is Mr. Ducque's experience of criminal association with addiction or involvement in the sale or distribution of drugs? How does that get in the way of working with young people? Does it get in the way?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...all in the same space, sometimes we are preaching to the converted, so I want to ask some questions people who are not engaged might ask to get them into the report and the record. The issue of drug-related intimidation and drug debt is a really interesting one because obviously if we were to go for a health-led approach or a decriminalised approach as opposed to a legalisation...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ..., in some ways that is more of a threat to it than is the substance. In some ways, this debate does not deal with any of that and others would say the way forward is to fully legalise and regulate drugs and so on. Among the Irish public, and even within the House, people are very reluctant to do that because what they do not want to do is ti replace it with the huge corporate capital...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Even if no change is made, a lot of people will ask why not put more people through the drugs court; why is it not operating nationally,; why do we not do more and is that model not used more? Will the witnesses answer some of those questions?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...find, and it was part of the dual diagnosis report conducted by the Finglas Addiction Support Team, FAST, and DCU, that so much of the two issues are interlinked. From the witnesses' work in the drugs court, and Mr. Duffin's at Ana Liffey, will they paint a picture of how much of a role mental health plays in the area of addiction?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...system is involved in someone's recovery, has impaired the ability of the person to recover? I am thinking of a direct comparison between people seeking recovery from alcohol or from an illegal drug. I know polydrug use makes it more complicated but I am thinking about those two pure streams. Somebody who is trying to seek recovery from alcohol does not have to deal with the criminal...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I am thinking of the two legal drugs we have, namely, methadone and alcohol.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: No, but my question is whether the journey to recovery is made easier for methadone and alcohol than it is for illegal drugs, not because of the chemical structure of the substance but because the criminal nature of the substance is not there.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...what is in Mr. Leitão da Silva's statement but I want to bring in some questions, from a policing perspective, that perhaps people might ask who are sceptical. For many people when they see open drug dealing in a street, it makes them feel less safe. When they see people using drugs, they feel less safe. There is a lot of hypocrisy there because if they see people drinking alcohol...

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...Many are taking that approach to this discussion, including the citizens’ assembly. I wish to discuss the citizens’ assembly, whose report has been laid before us for debate. Given the national drugs strategy and the assembly’s recommendations, where does the Department of Justice stand on the development of policy and what is the way forward for us in terms of...

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...’s recommendations, assuming that is what we decide to do. How can the Department assist us? Perhaps it would be as micro as assisting us in drafting the wording of policies around the Misuse of Drugs Act and so on. I would like us to work with the Department during this process rather than it be a case of us presenting bullet points that then sit in a Minister’s office...

Anniversary of the Introduction of the Smoking Ban: Statements (11 Apr 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...to the body and, in fact, we missed him this morning. I wish him well in his role, in particularly with regard to public health and considering the recommendations of the citizens' assembly on drugs, which I will come back to. It is interesting that Deputy Smith spoke about the role of the trade union movement in terms of the smoking ban. What is often forgotten is that it is not a...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...love to see a methodology. Population is a factor, as is the level of crime. It should not be based on historic numbers in a station. The report states that between 2011 and 2020 the number of drugs offences doubled. This means gardaí on the ground have to do double the work and double the processing but they do not have double the numbers.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Divisional drugs teams are contained in the overall number of gardaí in a division. Is that true?