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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we get some answers, please?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the British Prime Minister, Ms Theresa May, since she triggered Article 50 to commence Britain's withdrawal from the EU. [16463/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like a response on this matter because that is not acceptable. Has the Taoiseach discussed it? Is he aware of these suspensions? Is there one law for Nóirín O'Sullivan and another for other employees under the remit of the Department of Justice and Equality?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This was a question of particular relevance.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This was not just any question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Or not. She has not-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It should.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Without talking to the principal players. Amazing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not exactly evidence-based decision making.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on justice reform last met. [15435/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on justice reform will next meet. [16464/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am amazed the last meeting took place on 7 March given everything that is happening. There is an unprecedented storm going on in terms of the behaviour of An Garda Síochána, the scandals around the breath tests, wrongful convictions and the questions over the Commissioner, yet the Cabinet committee did not meet since 7 March. It is absolutely extraordinary. Even more...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will ask Deputy Kenny, as the politico here, to respond to this question. Does he believe there has been an attempt to throw mud in the eyes of the members of the public on the real import and purpose of this Bill? I believe there has, but I am interested to hear Deputy Kenny's response. I would describe Deputy O'Connell's intervention as nothing short of a hatchet job and a gross...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, she made these allegations and then left, which is telling in and of itself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In fairness, she was at the committee-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Senator Mullen just made comments about people's political background.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just asking Deputy Kenny whether he believes the Bill has been misrepresented because I believe it has. It is entirely legitimate for me to comment on something that happened at this committee meeting. If the person who made those comments has left, that is her problem. It is entirely legitimate to respond to issues that were discussed as part of this committee meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, absolutely, but a suggestion was made that the Bill was immoral in its import, which is an extraordinary statement to make. What is Deputy Kenny's view of comments to the effect that the Bill is immoral and so on? As I understand the Bill, and I have read it, it explicitly states that it will be an offence for people to use cannabis-based products other than on the grounds set out in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I stopped my contribution because I knew Dr. O'Grady was in a rush. It has been stated that there is evidence that where medicinal cannabis is made available, it has an impact on the use of other drugs and there is some evidence that use of benzodiazepines, opiates and so on has reduced where that is the case. Do the companies that manufacture those products feel threatened by medicinal...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For the purpose of clarity, I suppose, for anybody looking in on this debate, the herbal product is available in other jurisdictions and approved and authorised and can be made available through prescription in other jurisdictions. Maybe the speakers could confirm that. It is my understanding that it is.