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Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our guests for attending but I have found this debate a bit depressing. I have three teenage children and I hoped, as part of this committee, we would figure out how to interdict young people using drugs into the future. A lot of the talk today seems to have been, and I think it was Ms Lawlor who mentioned it, that the rate of drug taking among young people is rising and that is...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Professor Stevens mentioned the illicit market a couple of times, and we all understand exactly what is meant by that. If we are not to have that and we instead nationalise drugs policy and make drugs available under controlled circumstances, we are tacitly saying that drug-taking is something society is now okay with, for want of a better word.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Shanahan: If I make a point given that Professor Stevens mentioned tobacco, which I was going to mention, we have a particular problem in this country with the rise in vaping. Vaping was put forward as a substitute for tobacco and a way to get off it. We now have teenagers starting vaping who have never smoked cigarettes. We have seen issues with commercialising a substance when society decides it...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Shanahan: We have people who are functioning alcoholics and we may have functioning people on opioids who are in employment. Are the toxicity and rate of dependency not generally higher as you get up to the harder drugs?

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Shanahan: That is as an interdiction to opiate use.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Shanahan: What Professor Stevens just said is as an interdiction to opiate use. I am talking about people who are actually taking opiates or who are dependent on opiates or any other drugs.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Is the point that their drug use is being medically regulated and they are being medically treated?

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I am talking about those who are not.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Everyone in the House will recognise the bravery of Ms Bláthnaid Raleigh who waived her right to anonymity in a traumatic trial. An issue highlighted in the case related to the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act, which allows counsellors’ notes as admissible evidence. Victims’ rights groups have highlighted this threat of admissibility as making victims think twice before...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and Ministers for the extra time. I would like to acknowledge the efforts of the USI student groups around the country and the many third level institutions, especially student representatives from the South East Technological University, SETU, in my region. Third level participation in rentals has been a limited offering in Ireland over many years and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I raise the lack of State delivery to Waterford and the south east. I must first congratulate the Tánaiste on a great European election in Ireland South. Billy Kelleher romping home was expected, but having Cynthia Ní Mhurchú pipping Grace O'Sullivan was somewhat surprising. It must have been very pleasing for the Tánaiste, if not for his Green Party colleagues. Of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I do not want to accuse the Tánaiste, in reading out those statements, of living in a parallel universe when it comes to Waterford but they do not reflect the reality of the situation. Trust and integrity are fundamental parts of what we should be doing in politics. We are not seeing that with regard to the delivery in my city and county. The next day I come in here, maybe I will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Disagree away; those are the facts.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Where is the investment?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: In the past three years, €200 million was put into the national aviation sector and not a penny went to Waterford.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (3 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make a feasibility study public (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28400/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I thank our guests and congratulate the Minister on his elevation. I wish him the best of luck in his new role. There is quite a lot in the White Paper. We could probably give much lengthier consideration to various issues than we have time for today. I will touch on a few of them, if I may. First, I have brought up with every Minister and Minister of State who has come through this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Engagement with the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment (3 Jul 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Eight hundred are not going into Waterford.