Results 61-80 of 5,144 for speaker:Jennifer Murnane O'Connor
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Perhaps the Deputy has cases. It will be in the new drugs strategy. He is right that there are concerns. We are working within the drugs strategy and services on what we can do.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: There are drug midwives in the maternity hospitals. We will look at that but there are drug midwives in the hospitals.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Okay. We will have to address that.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: We will definitely be looking at that.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: It is a collaborative approach.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Yes. We will come back to the Deputy in that regard.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Yes, we have done the assessment.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: We have 12 beds for next year's budget. They are on a phased basis. That was part of the agreement. Another 12 beds will go in next year.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Absolutely. We are working on that.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Deputy for his questions. We will give the Deputy a breakdown of the budget. With regard to the task forces, as I announced, we will give more funding to the 24 task forces. Again, it is about the services and the strategy on how we look at that. I have been working with the Department of justice but it is an all-encompassing approach, as the Deputy said, ranging from...
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: That is true.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: We are doing an audit of services. I understand the issue. It is important that we have structures in place through the different Departments. In my remit of health and well-being within the drugs strategy, I have definitely been working on that issue. It is then about working with other agencies and Departments, whether in the area of children or education, because it is important that...
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: There is an audit under way. We are working on it.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: That is what we are looking at.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: We are still on the first draft. We will have the first draft by Christmas and we will issue the Deputy with a copy of that draft. After that, as we said, we will take that draft and the committee's recommendations and work together in collaboration. That is what we want to do.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Absolutely. We might not agree on everything, but-----
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Absolutely. It has to be that way.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: He was.
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: No. We all want to work together. The committee might not agree with parts of our draft. What we are saying is, we want to work with the committee and that is why we have said that when we get the first draft at Christmas we will issue it to the committee. We will work collaboratively with the committee for the few months. As Mr. Walsh said, it is all of us now working through the...
- Committee on Drugs Use: National Drugs Strategy: Discussion (13 Nov 2025)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I apologise.