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- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Now.
- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Now.
- Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Oct 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the witnesses for being here and helping us with our deliberations. By the time the witnesses interface with the drugs issue, that is with people in full-blown addiction, it is way down the road and at its most challenging point for the individual. I thank the witnesses for the offer to visit the court and we want to take that up as soon as possible. I am really interested to...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: It is too late.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Does Mr. Duffin see the diversion opportunity being operated by a court facility? Is that how he would imagine it working? How would he imagine it working?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Who would they be diverted to?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Is Mr. Duffin suggesting they would be diverted to a GP?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: That is one of the big issues. It is why people’s addiction and their struggle escalates. Even at the earliest stage, when they need some help, assistance or an intervention, without being diverted, it is not there. When you look for help and cannot get it, at a human level it is very hard to find the resilience, particularly if you are struggling with something else as well, be it...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I welcome the increased provision of funding in budget 2025 for housing. The substantial funding that has already been applied by the Government of in excess of €5 billion a year will be increased to more than €6 billion in 2025. The public funds will go to delivering thousands more affordable homes. An additional €1.25 billion has been allocated to the Land...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank everyone for being here. Apologies for my late arrival. I was in the Seanad. I wish I could have been here earlier. I thank the witnesses for their opening statements and all the work that they and the organisations they represent do. I heard some of the witnesses' earlier contributions. I was listening before I went to the Seanad. The witnesses were talking about stigma. It...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I would be interested to hear Ms Kearney's perspective because the female experience is important and is a large determinant for children being born into addiction. If, as a society, we are to make young women believe and have value in themselves, identifying young women who are at risk, before they ever become a mother, is very important.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Who would do that, however? Who would regulate and dispense it?
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I am really struck by what Ms Kearney has said. It is so true that the strength and resilience of anybody who has achieved recovery is so much beyond any of us who have not been tested in that way and this is generally not recognised. Those who work closely with or support people in recovery do recognise it. This is a huge opportunity for us as a society to recognise, celebrate and...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Sorry, I laughed there and maybe I should not have, if it is a serious suggestion.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I agree. When someone is diverted from their GP, it is immediately signalling that the person does not belong in the waiting room.
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Deputy Wynne has not had a chance to contribute.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I rise today in anger and frustration. I am sure every Member of the House feels the same about the ongoing saga of the spending of taxpayers' money on infrastructure associated with this complex. I am talking about the bike shelter and "security pavilion", as it is being described. It would be laughable if it were not so serious. I am furious and livid over this. I am dealing with...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: I thank the witnesses for their contributions, which have been very useful, and for their time and the work they do daily. I might begin with the opening statement from the Irish Prison Service. It is really stark that over 70% of those in custody are struggling with addiction. That is heartbreaking when one thinks of the young lives that are being destroyed and how people exit education at...
- Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Mary Fitzpatrick: Absolutely.