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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Engagement with Ukrainian Ambassador and the Chair of the EU Committee of the Ukrainian Parliament (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I apologise. I was to follow up on that. The last time Ms Klympush-Tsintsadze was before us, she spoke about the list of companies, provided to the Department of Foreign Affairs, that were still trading with Russia. Where is that? We have had a lot of sanctions and a lot of things have changed since that. I will leave it at that. I may come in again afterwards. I do not want to hog...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Medical Bureau of Road Safety: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Am I right in saying that when cannabis is in a person’s system, it stuns the brain cells, but if the person stops, it has not killed the brain cells in the way alcohol does, and they will un-stun themselves, for want of a more technical term?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Medical Bureau of Road Safety: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is very difficult to get on the medicinal cannabis access programme, MCAP.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Medical Bureau of Road Safety: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I apologise that I was at another event earlier. I will continue on from the Cathaoirleach’s point. I think none of us is too shocked that there is an increase in the number of people who have drugs in their system when stopped at checkpoints or after accidents on the basis there is a huge increase in the number of people taking drugs. When there is a case of GAA motions going to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Medical Bureau of Road Safety: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am assuming it is a "Yes" because it is the case that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Medical Bureau of Road Safety: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Tetrahydrocannabinol, THC, and-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Medical Bureau of Road Safety: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Garda and mental health experts say that we are dealing with stuff that is a hell of a lot more potent and so has a greater level of impact. I am wondering about tests. The Medical Bureau of Road Safety has found that there is a huge issue with benzodiazepines. What is the situation with crack cocaine?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Medical Bureau of Road Safety: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: More work needs to be done and these are probably unfair questions but Dr. Bedford is not the first person who has been asked unfair questions in a committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Medical Bureau of Road Safety: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We all know that. I go to residents' committee meetings and people talk about open drug dealing and all of the rest of it. We put pressure on and move it around-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Medical Bureau of Road Safety: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is it and it is combined with the open use of cocaine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Medical Bureau of Road Safety: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I will give the example of the superintendent in Dundalk arriving at a community meeting we had in Muirhevnamore. He was congratulated on some of the work the Garda had carried out and it was down to the drug squad being put back into action, there not having been one for a couple of years and at that stage there were three or four members. The superintendent said it was great and that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Medical Bureau of Road Safety: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is used by certain bus companies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank Mr. Henry for coming before the committee. A part of me wants to ask him questions about broadband, but we might leave that for another time. It might have been very useful during the Northern elections. When people brought up that issue, he could have been useful to me at that stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is it. You know what I mean.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is dreadful what you have to listen to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is utterly dreadful. We might have to take disciplinary proceedings afterwards, but not at the moment. Mr. Henry has stated that he is listening. We all get an understanding of the problem in that everyone would like to see a more distributed, dissipated - whatever term one wishes to use - a more logical, regional infrastructure as regards transport in general and, specifically,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I suppose it is about how one puts a co-operative setting together, whether it is competitive or co-operative. People have said that there may be logic in the context of certain routes as regards Shannon, but half the services that operate out of Dublin cannot suddenly move to the west coast. It would not make sense to do that. I know Mr. Henry is not necessarily proposing that but what is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is possibly not the analogy to use at the minute.