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Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2024)

Shane Cassells: ...Navan town and county councils. I welcome also his wife, Fiona, and sister-in-law, Martina. It is great to see former councillor Sean O'Grady with us. I was part of a European initiative against drugs 22 years ago and there I first met Sean. I was mayor of Navan and slightly younger than I am now. Sean and his wife, Kitty, who joins him today, were there representing Kerry. We also...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (24 Jan 2024)

Shane Cassells: ...my own county that local councillors are extremely diligent in their duties not just when it comes to these meeting but regarding the very important work of the various subcommittees, such as the drugs task force, the community policing elements and traffic safety subcommittees. Local councillors are leading change. In our instance, Chief Superintendent John Dollard brings his entire...

Seanad: Crime and Policing: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Shane Cassells: ...do not want the same situation for my town of Navan, where those minor criminal operators suddenly have a sense that they can elevate themselves onto a bigger stage and where those who operate in peddling drugs and so forth in gangland crime come in and take control. We have seen the impact when public order units are deployed in towns; it dissuades such crime. My main point is that the...

Seanad: Gambling (Prohibition of Advertising) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Shane Cassells: ...x20ac;1.4 billion gambling and the losses were the fourth most in the EU. It is the online sphere that we really need to look at in this debate. As I said, we have moved away from the newspapers. The drug lords would be jealous of the fact that this is an industry which can keep people hooked through algorithms. When you pick up your phone, your timeline becomes flooded with...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Feb 2022)

Shane Cassells: Next week the largest sporting organisation in the country, the GAA, will hold its annual congress in County Mayo. One club and its chairman have been so motivated by the abuse of drugs they have witnessed within our society and in particular, within our GAA clubs, that they have been moved to table a motion at congress. That man is Tim Barry from Rathdowney-Errill GAA in County Laois and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Oct 2021)

Shane Cassells: ...and they keep fuelling that addiction with these products. What an irony it would be if we were to afford them a tax credit to allow them to further enhance their research to keep people addicted to this drug. I am aware of the area at which this is primarily focused, but I would hope that the Finance Bill can be strengthened to make sure that no company developing products for the...

Seanad: Budget 2022: Statements (12 Oct 2021)

Shane Cassells: ...that looking after the elite? There are an extra 1,200 special needs assistant posts for the most vulnerable children in our society. Is that looking after the elite? There is provision for 800 extra gardaí, to take the scum and the drug lords off the street in this country and to deal with antisocial behaviour. Is that looking after the elite? I think boys need to have a hard...

Illegal Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...forward this motion and on all his diligent work in this area both now and when he was a Minister of State. I also commend the various Ministers of State with responsibility for the area of drugs from all parties who came together last week to show their solidarity and demonstrate that there is a united front across our Parliament in dealing with this scourge in our land. As a country,...

Juvenile Crime: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...the system would be more efficient. We would not have a system whereby those involved in what I would call heinous crimes to begin with, progress on to even more heinous crimes such as attacks on persons, drug crime or other crime. All Deputies will agree, no matter what party they are in, that if one goes into any housing estate in any of our respective towns, it is not just the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (15 Jan 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...-handed manner that people cannot enjoy a bet or go to a racetrack. However, for many gambling is a disease that can be worse than alcoholism. It is a disease that can ruin families far worse than alcoholism or drugs. This is an industry that will stop at nothing in self-promotion. It has also infiltrated sport. Famously, several years ago a prominent bookmaking firm paid to have its...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Divisional Headquarters (31 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: ...authorities that the divisional headquarters for the Meath division is based in Navan". I have read to the House where all the different units are located: the traffic corps is in Dunshaughlin, the drugs unit is in Slane and different units are based elsewhere. They are all over the county. There is no divisional headquarters. The Topical Issue speaks to the fact that there is none and...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Divisional Headquarters (31 May 2018)

Shane Cassells: ...I shall explain why. There are more than 100 members of the force crammed into an outdated district station in Navan. Key services are spread out all over the county away from the county town. The drugs unit is based in Slane. The scene of crime unit is located in a civilian building in Athlumney. The traffic corps is based in Dunshaughlin in the south of the county while the...

Order of Business (16 Jan 2018)

Shane Cassells: I am always up early, a Cheann Comhairle. The programme for Government committed the Government to introducing a new national drugs strategy and it was launched by the Taoiseach last summer. He said at the launch that the treatment of abuse as a public health issue rather than as a criminal justice issue "helps communities." I ask him whether the small rural community in Ballivor,...

Other Questions: Garda Deployment (5 Dec 2017)

Shane Cassells: ...had to pull the traffic corps from the north of the county and apply it in places like Ashbourne because of the increasing threat from gangland crime and the activities of persons operating in the drugs trade. I look forward to the Minister's reply.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (3 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: 304. To ask the Minister for Health if versatis medicated plasters will remain as a reimbursable item under the medical card or drugs payment schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41304/17]

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2017)

Shane Cassells: ...people are getting back to that basic element of policing? My question is about the style of policing. I acknowledge that policing has changed and that intricate work has to be done with regard to drugs and so forth. However, people are afraid about that basic element of policing, namely, people staving off these thugs who appear to control towns such as Navan, Mullingar and Thurles....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Administration (7 Feb 2017)

Shane Cassells: 395. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review underpayments to a person (details supplied) in County Meath under the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5566/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Trials (17 May 2016)

Shane Cassells: 660. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work of the National Centre for Pharmaco-economics in relation to the full Health Technology Assessment being carried out on the new drug Orkambi for cystic fibrosis sufferers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9528/16]