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Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It is about ensuring it is implemented across the professions and in the different sectors. I will go back for a moment to differentiating between methadone and morphine. Is there a stigmatisation of methadone? If methadone changed its name and was just called an opioid, would things be different? Methadone has become synonymous with a particular group. Can the witnesses explain the...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I refer to the monopolisation, in one sense, of prescribing and the gatekeeping and the potential personalities driving that gatekeeping. Going back very briefly to the point about methadone and morphine, the methadone is slow release and longer acting. It is ticking along, whereas morphine can have much more of a flow in terms of its highs and lows. They are both of a similar nature and...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I was trying to explain that in the context of a nurse prescribing morphine or methadone the precautions and assessments needed during their prescription. There would not be an increased risk in the assessment in the prescribing of methadone versus morphine.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: That is a mapping and follow-up issue with the person, rather than a clinical decision regarding the millilitres required or the safe dosage to give somebody in a particular setting or whatever.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It is an economic decision as well, if the State wants to look at it as such. Does anyone have any final comments? As there will be a second session, I do not know if we have time for a full second round of questions, but any member who has outstanding questions may ask them.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Does anyone want to make any final comments on any matters they were hoping we would cover?

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: If this committee comes out with anything that is not progressive, it will be against the evidence. That is how I will reframe that contribution.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It has been an engaging session and very helpful, especially for homing in on some of the subjects that have not come up to date. It was specific and helpful. I thank Professor Comiskey, Dr. Kelly and Mr. McBrien.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: The witnesses are very welcome. It is positive to hear it reiterated that An Garda Síochána will support a health-led approach and that this approach will potentially - and hopefully in my view - be very different from the one proposed by the Department. It is not a health-led approach, as it is understood in terms of decriminalisation, from a legislative perspective. Policing or...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: It is that balance of police having a particular function in society in terms of control or detecting illegal activity and so on and having to change that culture somewhat. Changing that culture also can add to public safety in general. It is not necessarily about waiting outside tents or pulling people over as they go into a safe injection facility. Not doing that in fact extends, rather...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: They were inflicting it on one another also. Even though they are in prison, the lives of those that are dead were also lost as they were caught up in it too. They become their own victims in a sense, which at times gets lost.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Mr. Kelly.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I thank Mr. McBrien. I invite Professor Comiskey to make her opening statement.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I must say I thought generation F would be a bit more of a provocative "F". It is interesting. On a philosophical point, Deputy Ó Cathasaigh has done a lot more thinking than I have on this idea of future generations and a commission for future generations, people who are not currently here or, whatever way it is, are in a particular time in their life, and how one imagines how they...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I am more trying to understand the intent rather than even scrutinising the Bill. I apologise; I know this is pre-legislative scrutiny. I am also thinking there is potential for somebody who has privilege and power in the moment. Sometimes people often feel a bit precious about that or a bit insulted when one points out that they are extremely privileged and asks what are they doing with...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Disruptors were mentioned.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: If the witnesses want real disruptors they will have to make sure the voice being heard is not somehow managed. If you were to look at disruption at the furthest point-----

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I definitely believe in having ad hoc meetings on stairwells in flats. People have really lost touch with being in other people's spaces. We expect people to apply for stuff online that they will never see. Something can exist but it can be completely non-existent in someone's life. It is like the old outreach style of work. Beyond youth work, nothing should be necessarily consultation....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I am delighted to second Senator Clonan's amendment to the Order of Business. Briefly, before I propose my own amendment to the Order of Business, it is important to put on the record the importance of low-threshold accommodation when it comes to addiction. It is an extremely important entry point. Other references to addiction treatment are people looking for support for addiction,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.