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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.

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I have a lot more questions and I hope to come back.

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: I fully agree and wanted to give the witnesses an opportunity to address those issues because they are being addressed publicly. I have a lot more questions, but I want to particularly thank the members of the citizens' assembly. They gave up a big chunk of their time. I am sure they were not experts on the area in any way and they feel they have gained huge experience. I thank them so much.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: Good morning to our witnesses. Let us deal with the issue of non-compliant procurement first. It is the one that always comes up at the beginning of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report. There were 122 instances. Mr. Conlon indicated that they relate to capital works in the property portfolio. Could he explain that a little further?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (13 Jun 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: If officials from another Department were with me and talking about any of those things, I would say they might be explainable on the basis of there being other areas of expertise within the Department. The OPW’s core business is all these things. Surely there is a framework tender that allows the OPW to implement solutions. I am thinking about local authorities, which have a...