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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (15 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 263. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment regarding work permits for the homecare sector, the number of work permit applications received since the scheme opened in January 2023; the number of work permits issued; the number of applications returned at initial applications pre-check stage; the number of other applications rejected; the number of applications currently in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a new build for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41004/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (15 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the working family payment renewal of a person (details supplied). [41431/24]

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

Paul McAuliffe: I will let the next speaker go as I have just come in from the public accounts committee. I will come in after that.

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

Paul McAuliffe: I thank all the witnesses for being here, especially Mr. Duffin. We have talked about this many times and it is good to see us at a point where an Oireachtas committee is considering a health-led approach. It is my view we should move towards such an approach. As the people who are interested in this committee are all in the same space, sometimes we are preaching to the converted, so I...

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

Paul McAuliffe: I suppose that is part of the challenge in that as we start to think about this issue, people do not want to make things worse. Most people are in that space. As they do not want to make things worse, there is a lot of consensus now building around the health-led approach. As we delve more into it, however, there is the spectre of the industry being there and the intimidation, gangland...

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: I will ask about mental health because often we 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) (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Is that about trying to find places for treatment?

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

Paul McAuliffe: And Mr. Duffin?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Meetings (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the next European Union Foreign Affairs Council will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40566/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (10 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his response to the gross human rights abuses carried out by the Taliban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40565/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (9 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on an increase in the CIÉ pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40418/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on a living alone allowance application for a person (details supplied). [40391/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Poverty (9 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands' Report entitled ‘Report on Energy Poverty 2024’. [40508/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (9 Oct 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: 157. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the ASD assessment for a child (details supplied). [40358/24]

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

Paul McAuliffe: I also have two other committees at the same time. We learn the skill of bilocation very quickly in this place. I have read some of the opening statements and I am aware of some of the contributions made earlier. I have limited time and I want to hear from the witnesses. In terms of pursuing a change through decriminalisation, depenalisation or legalisation, will the witnesses give...

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

Paul McAuliffe: The question was whether the criminal element, or the element of it being illegal, impairs their recovery.

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.