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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.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Perhaps into the future it might be. I was at National Broadband Ireland's, NBI, offices this week and while a number of deadlines and targets have been missed, what the company is saying at the minute would make one somewhat more hopeful. I will be very glad when NBI can appear before this committee and state that it has met its targets.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes, I have seen that-----

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Mr. Henry is saying it is policy but he is also saying that this really needs to happen at a governmental level or it is not going to happen at all.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Mr. Henry is going to have a difficulty with getting all of those parts that are competitive operations of their own to co-operate. That can only happen if the piece at the top is right, if there is a plan-----

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We have had this meeting on Shannon Airport over and over again. That is no disrespect to anyone; it is just what happens. That will continue until such point in time when somebody grasps it and puts an entire aviation plan in place across the board. Then there will be difficulties in dealing with individual stakeholders that have their own agendas because not everyone is as sound as me.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I get that and I think it would relate to a significant section of society, unfortunately. In Ireland we have always had a history of people drinking too much and you now hear that people use cocaine as a means of being able to drink too much and they can still go on a three or four-day bender with it. That can sometimes end in absolute disaster. I used the term "recreational" but there is...

Journalists in Conflicts across the World: Statements (24 May 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We are dealing at the moment with attacks on democracy and truth and the necessity for real journalism. Many have mentioned the issue of the social media giants, the working of their algorithms and how they, at times, facilitate the telling of mistruths. We have a duty of care and protection for the vital work, particularly in conflict situations, carried out by journalists. In our...