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Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)

Michael McNamara: ...perception of drug use in certain communities. He talked about the purposes of the criminal law. One of those purposes is to provide a deterrent. Certainly, that is what I was told when I studied criminal law a very long time ago. Is there not something of a contradiction in his position? On the one hand, he is saying we cannot destigmatise without decriminalising and, on the other...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Michael McNamara: ...quite likes it there but there is no university in Scariff. He has been offered a place in UCD which he wants to take up. He wants to get on with his life. He applied for asylum on 5 January along with his parents. He made his way from Gaza to Egypt and from Egypt to Ireland. He has asked if he can transfer accommodation to Dublin so he can attend university, where he has been offered...

Primary School Funding: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2024)

Michael McNamara: ...bloated, or may appear bloated to the European Union, we should therefore use GNI* is not an excuse not to use those taxes. Even if these are windfall taxes that there is a question mark over in the long term, we could use those taxes now to benefit children now because those children are our future. It is incredibly short-sighted for the Government to state it will only spend in...

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

Michael McNamara: ...to reply and that contributions are relevant to the matter under discussion. The purpose of today's meeting is to engage with the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use, which considered this issue over a long period. We are joined by Mr. Paul Reid, chair of the citizens' assembly, Mr. Cathal O’Regan, secretary to the citizens' assembly, Professor Jo-Hanna Ivers and Mr. Brian Galvin, who...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: ...Fáil, the Tánaiste, Deputy Micheál Martin, who stated: "we should be making those houses fit for habitation and allocate them because development of the kind the Deputy mentioned will take a long time." Nevertheless, in March of this year, the day before a challenge to those plans was to be heard in the High Court, the houses were demolished by the council. Yesterday, the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (14 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: ...Expenditure and Reform if it has been determined whether the OPW or Clare County Council had responsibility for conservation works in Moynoe Graveyard, Scariff, County Clare; if he is aware how long scaffolding has been in place; when it will be removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21882/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (22 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: ..., starting with the people who had received the relevant status three years previously. This does not, however, fully answer the question because there are two other groups of people who are no longer applicants for international protection. I refer to those whose applications for international protection have been determined. These are people who have been refused international...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2024: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: ...of direct provision. That is a different conversation, which I look forward to having with the Minister during Topical Issues, when I hope I will finally get some information which I have been seeking for a long time. This motion relates to beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine who have come to Ireland. Of course the State was stretched to find accommodation quickly. It...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: ...disquiet. It brings the law into disrepute if there is a provision on the Statute Book that is either not prosecuted or prosecutable. I want to know what the story is with this. Not that long ago, a statute law revision was done to take off the Statute Book various provisions going back hundreds of years that were not being used. This is relatively recent legislation. It is section 11...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: 231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason passengers travelling on the late evening Ennis to Dublin rail service must endure an hour-long wait at Colbert Station, resulting in a delayed 11pm arrival at Heuston Station; if the previous timetable will be restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1027/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Carcase Disposal (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...sector, is part of the problem and is coming back to bite the Department, as it has done. Farmers have been objecting to the concentration of power in the beef processing sector for a very long time. Is the fact that there are so few renderers and that they seem to be linked part of the problem? They are still accepting material from beef factories and those factories tend to be owned...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Carcase Disposal (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...that statement might address whether the concentration of power and ownership in the processing sector is now coming back to bite the Department, as it has been biting primary producers for a very long time.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...are provided with one. There are occasions when Bills have to be pushed through. However, I can think of only one in the time I have been in this House, which, I acknowledge, is not very long. It was the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Act 2013, when the State would have been taken to the cleaners by the markets the following morning if it had not been passed. Legislation such as...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...has recently been put on between Killaloe and Ennis and I am interested to know exactly what the numbers are because many more people travel from Killaloe to Limerick daily and have done for a very long time. If we are talking about new rail links, there was once a railway station serving Killaloe and Ballina. There was a spur from Birdhill on the Ballina side. Maybe it is just a pipe...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Instruction to Committee (12 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...as we expect everyone to respect the Constitution, it is important the Civil Service does too. Increasingly, this is a Civil Service that, perhaps because Fine Gael has been in government for so long, seems to think it can be taken for granted. This is not how to make legislation. If something urgent needs to be done, that is fine, and we can bring in legislation overnight or tack...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...not really know what those reviews found as they have never been published. There was certainly a problem with An Bord Pleanála. There were many cases in An Bord Pleanála that were taking a long time, but we do not know why those cases were taking so long. It is not unreasonable to surmise they were taking so long because they raised complex issues and the board lacked the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Meetings (30 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...in supporting European Union accession for Ukraine in circumstances where Northern Macedonia, or the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, as it was called for some time, has been languishing for so long with such little support, or indeed Bosnia-Herzegovina or many parts of former Yugoslavia? They were deemed to have dangers around corruption, I understand, and needs for reforms. With...

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...between the number of people housed in her constituency, in the context of the population of her constituency, and the number of people housed in constituencies like Clare and Kerry, or indeed along the whole western seaboard. All of these areas depend heavily on seasonal tourism, but they cannot get income from seasonal tourism now because the hotel beds are filled with people. I am not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...then feel they can act with impunity? At least some of the rioters – very far from all of them – were mere opportunists who have been on those streets and acting with increasing impunity for a long time. That is the first question. Second, there is an increase in antisocial behaviour in Ennis. A market building, which is a bit of a fiasco, was recently built by Clare...