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Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: We have to move on.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I wish to make three points. I might then give an opportunity for people to comment or deal with any unanswered questions that arose throughout the session before we wrap up. On doctors, GPs or whomever being able to refuse care, reproductive rights is obviously one area in which that happens but that has been the subject of a constitutional debate for years when it comes to the religious...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Is there an issue in the medical profession beyond GP-specific training in terms of the curriculum and being able to train to be a doctor and understand the social contexts in which they are going to work? Obviously, some social contexts are going to be different as a result of environmental factors, poverty and all of that. Doctors obviously have to choose to either become GPs or go into...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Diversifying the profession should be a long-term goal. Doing so would bring in all of that different learning because there are different types of people working in medicine. On novel benzos, we saw the recent reports about the Irish Prison Service and Portlaoise Prison. We have had novel benzos in the past, have we not? I do not know if the problem is recognised as that. A few years...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I think it was in Canada - I apologise if I have the location wrong and I will double-check it for the record - where there was an initiative recently whereby drug dealers were encouraged to bring their supplies, especially if something had happened, to be checked and were provided with receipts. Those receipts were then shown to the people who wanted to buy the drugs. I know some people...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Regardless of people not wanting the whole trade of drug dealing, you definitely have to accept that drug dealers exist.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: If we can increase ethical standards, then I am all for it. Are there any unanswered questions before we wrap up? Does Dr. Crowley want to come in?

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: On that point, I know you are not here from the HSE. I am not sure who can answer this. It is about paraphernalia such as crack pipes specifically. I am sure it is possible to transmit hepatitis C via such paraphernalia. Is procurement getting in the way of providing crack users with the pipes they are saying are the most comfortable for them? There were reports on the ground that in...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Some of them in Tallaght were ending up switching back to other ones. I am told it is the same in Ballyfermot.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I think that is it. I want to thank both the pharmacy union and the ICGP. That was a really good session in which we covered much that had not been covered previously. It went outside the realms of decriminalisation but the discussion was still underpinned by that being an important factor with all the other work that is being done. I thank all who contributed. I remind members that...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Minister. It has been very helpful to sit back and listen to the previous engagements. I acknowledge the work of the Minister and the officials in the Department over recent years in working with me as the Bill went through the Seanad. We also allowed each other space to have these discussions. To put it on the record, what I am hearing is that it is the drafting that it is...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It is about the timeframe. Is the Minister saying that there is no doubt in his mind that the timeframe will not shift and that I will not be told in a week's time or two weeks' time that there still was not enough time? I know it is his intention to see this brought forward as an amendment on Committee Stage but it was also his intention that it would be part of the general scheme. My...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Maternity Protection (Amendment) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2024: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Sep 2024)

Lynn Ruane: If an election happens first, everything falls.