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- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Absolutely. As the Senator knows, HHC is now an illegal drug. Drugs are evolving, which the committee will know from all its meetings. With everything evolving, we are very mindful of the changes within drugs and things that are happening in the country. We need to work more on how we make things move quicker. It is our aim within the drugs strategy that we move quicker in making a drug...
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: As the Senator knows, the Government is committed to diverting people in the process of drugs to the health service. That is our aim. Recommendation No. 17 from the citizens' assembly stated that drug possession should remain illegal. Our health diversion scheme is in line with this but, again, we are waiting - I think it is imminent - to hear from the Garda on the health diversion scheme....
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Yes
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: No, absolutely not. I thank the Senator for asking that. UISCE has come up quite regularly recently. As I said, and I think this is important-----
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Just let me finish. What I can just say and what I said to the Department is that we have 610 services around the country-----
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I can assure the Senator that we are working with everybody-----
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: We agreed this. We are all working together.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am sorry.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: As the Senator said, I am the Minister of State.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am the Minister of State with responsibility for every service around the country. Every service is important to me.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Every service is important to me and-----
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: -----what I am saying is we are working on that.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: It is paused at the moment.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: It is paused at the moment. No, the Senator asked about the national oversight.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: No.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Is the Senator telling me the other 610 agencies are not key voices as well? Sorry, let us look at-----
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I work with everybody.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am telling the Senator that I have 610 services.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: At the moment, as we said, we are working within the different groups. We are working with the draft, we are working with the Senator and the people she represents-----
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I do.