Results 541-560 of 5,580 for speaker:Paul McAuliffe
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Often referred to as the two strikes system.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: That was the last time the Oireachtas took a position on the matter, so the Department is taking its lead from that with the health diversion system. The citizens’ assembly appeared to go further than that. Mr. Reid made clear the assembly’s view when he was before us. It is an advisory body and its opinion is not law, so I accept the Department cannot take a lead from it,...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Much of this will lie with the Department of Justice, given the way we have criminalised addiction and so on. One of the challenges is trying to operationalise the citizens’ assembly’s recommendations, assuming that is what we decide to do. How can the Department assist us? Perhaps it would be as micro as assisting us in drafting the wording of policies around the Misuse of...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Tell me about the two Departments. Mr. Ryan says this is the Department of Health's legislation, but issues of criminal justice and so on lie with his Department. Are there challenges of which we should be aware?
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: I might make a recommendation after the meeting, but as we go through this process, perhaps a liaison to the committee from each Department would be useful for private sessions when we could have additional discussions on drafting and so forth. Much of this revolves around the legal and policy approaches, but a great deal relies on what Senator Seery Kearney discussed. Addiction often has...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Recently, I met the Disability Federation of Ireland and the Irish Wheelchair Association following the decision by the Minister for Social Protection to end the Green Paper process and to carry out further consultation. We are heading into a budget. The ESRI has stated on the last two occasions that we have kept ahead of inflation by combining core increases and once-off payments but we...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (19 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 143. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on an operation (details supplied). [26417/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (18 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 85. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the passport for a person (details supplied) can be expedited. [26297/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (18 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 220. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm the social welfare entitlements of a person (details supplied). [26039/24]
- Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: This is the third committee where I have dealt with the report of a citizens' assembly. The previous ones were for gender equality and the directly elected mayor. I have a little more insight into how the citizens' assembly works. I want to give witnesses an opportunity to talk a little about the criticisms that arose at the voting on the last day. They arose online from people who were...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: I have come from a weekend of narrow margins and disappointment so I can understand that. Does Mr. Reid feel it was clear enough that subsidiary preferences would kick in once the first preference was eliminated? Does he think that was understood in the room or was there confusion on it?
- Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: I did watch them.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: That would be useful.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: I believe the Oireachtas has the right to act however it wishes, and the citizens' assembly is advisory. However, as members of the citizens' assembly, do the witnesses think it would be in keeping with citizens' assembly report and recommendations for the Oireachtas to take a view on that, given that it was such a tight margin?
- Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Is that the case even given the very tight margin? I am not talking about that issue or debate specifically. I suppose it is the point that this is a nuanced debate and the recommendations of the citizens' assembly on that issue were very narrow. In my view, that leaves the Oireachtas the freedom to take it and respond to it, given that it was such a narrow margin.