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Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank Ms O'Reilly for that powerful contribution. I invite Dr. James O'Shea to give his opening statement on behalf of Addiction Counsellors of Ireland.

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: Senator Ní Chuilinn is next.

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: Apologies Deputy Graves. Does anyone else wish to respond?

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank Senator Ní Chuilinn and I will come back for a second round shortly. I called Deputy Brabazon.

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I should mention that Dr. Lambert has also given us a very helpful bibliography. That will be online if members wish to have a look. I thank the witnesses for their contributions, they have been incredibly informative. I have a couple of questions I scribbled as they were speaking. A question was asked about drug prevention programmes. There will be education and drug prevention...

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I have two minutes but whatever Dr. O'Shea is going to say he will have the opportunity to say. I want to ask about prisons as well. I know this session is not about prisons specifically but it will factor into a lot of the work we do. We have hugely high rates of recidivism in this country - I think close to seven out of ten people who go into our prison system will return there within...

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: Would any of our witnesses like to talk a little about how we are doing prison, what we are misunderstanding and where the opportunity is we are not seeing? Effectively, what I am asking concerns the fact that a lot of people go into prisons and have an addiction that deals with a trauma that has been passed down. When they come out of prison, it seems as though everything has been...

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: Yes.

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: Is the prison the place for this?

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: Okay. I do not want to take advantage of the clock. I will let everybody else do it but I am the Chair and unfortunately cannot. We will go with the second round of questions now. I think we have gone through everyone. Members will have four minutes during this session to ask questions. Deputy Colm Burke is first.

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank Deputy Burke. Unfortunately, we have to move on and his time is up. I will have to be strict on this one, because I can see that everyone wants to get a second round question in. Senator Ryan is next.

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank Senator Ryan. Senator Fitzpatrick is next.

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I thank the Senator. Deputy Ó Murchú is next.

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: At this point the witnesses should feel free to take the time to cover anything that has not been asked, a point they would like to build on or something not covered because I might have interrupted.

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: That is absolutely fine and I thank Dr. Lambert. Do Mr. Collins, Ms Caroline O'Reilly or Dr. Laura O'Reilly have anything else they would like to say before I cut them off? Please feel free to do so.

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: With that in mind, I thank the witnesses for bringing their expertise into the room. We will see that reflected in the document we are developing as a committee in the coming months. I thank them for their time. That brings our meeting to a close. The meeting is adjourned until Thursday, 6 November when we will hold our session in public at 12.30 p.m.

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I acknowledge Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion. Without question we will support it wholeheartedly. A cost-of-disability payment is long overdue. It is fair, it is practical and it recognises what the State has known for years, which is that living with a disability in Ireland carries a very real financial cost. Its omission from last year's budget was profoundly...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: I support Deputy McDonald’s call for a public inquiry into Children’s Health Ireland. In addition, I propose an amendment under Standing Order 35(3), namely to call for statements on the peace plan for Gaza. All of us are being contacted in our offices daily by people who are seeking to understand what exactly the plan means and hoping it will bring peace. We want to know...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: -----and reaffirming our commitment to the ICC judgment-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Gary Gannon: -----supporting South Africa through the ICJ.