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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: If a person wants to smoke cannabis for recreational purposes in breach of the law and in the company of somebody who is using cannabis for medicinal purposes, it is very difficult to say to the other guy, "Show me your prescription". Merging the two together is a dangerous place to go.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: The effect-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: My response to that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: I am saying it is virtually impossible to police what the Deputy is suggesting. He is suggesting that gardaí will have to walk into wherever there is a group of people and go from one to the other asking, "Do you have a doctor's certificate?" There could be a guy there who does not have one who is using it for recreational purposes. He is just having fun he is just getting a high for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: I do not accept the analogy because there are issues regarding methadone which is the degree to which methadone reduces the level of indulgence, use or whatever the case may be and not for medicinal purposes. For that reason a new product, which I have mentioned to the Chairman, is now available which will in fact correct that. It breaks the habit-forming urge that is there. I presume that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: In fact it is not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: Deputy Boyd Barrett seems to have the notion that medicinal cannabis will cure everything, including political ills. It will not do any of those things I can assure him.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: It is not going to work that way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: There is always time. The Chairman should not encourage me.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: The Garda Síochána (compensation for malicious injuries) Bill is promised legislation. I know there were some legal difficulties with the Bill initially, but have the heads of it been cleared and will it come before the House soon?
- Other Questions: County Development Plans (6 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: Is the Minister fully aware of the infrastructural needs of the area, such as the substantial road and bridge realignments? The area to which the zoning has been diverted has been subject to severe flooding in past years on more than one occasion. There is a need for an urgent drainage and irrigation plan to be incorporated into the plan. I agree that the plan should go on display again...
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (6 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: 9. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of local authority new housing starts initiated by each local authority in the past 12 months; the number of local authorities, if any, awaiting the start of such housing starts; the extent to which the seriousness of the housing shortage has manifested itself in terms of homelessness in each of the local...
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (6 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: My question relates to the ongoing, in fact burgeoning, housing shortage in County Kildare with particular reference to the urgent need to deal with recurring homelessness. We must deal with people who find themselves homeless as a result of a variety of issues and have no place to go, with families having to book and rebook into hotels. In some cases, families with children who have...
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (6 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for his reply. I acknowledge the work done to date. I realise the amount of preparatory work that is required before the houses are delivered. However, the housing shortage in County Kildare is reaching a position we have not experienced previously. Numerous families are apparently becoming homeless at the same time. On a daily basis, three, four, five or six...
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (6 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: I acknowledge all the work that has been done and has to be done still. Some of these things are sent to test us from time to time. The manner in which we deal with emergencies is indicative of what can be done for society at any particular time. I agree that the Minister and his ministerial colleague are doing everything possible to do that now. The problem is with the urgency. There...
- Other Questions: Rent Controls (6 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: Thank you, Minister.
- Other Questions: Rent Controls (6 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: Yes.
- Other Questions: Rent Controls (6 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: Under Standing Orders, I will bring in Deputy Jan O'Sullivan.
- Other Questions: Housing Policy (6 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: The Ceann Comhairle has agreed that Question No. 10 will be taken by Deputy Pat Casey.
- Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation (6 Apr 2017)
Bernard Durkan: We are out of time but I will allow the Deputy and Minister to contribute again.