Results 1-20 of 40 for drugs speaker:Pa Daly

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Pa Daly: ...% of gardaí on regular duty doing 12-hour shifts are doing half an hour of road traffic work on their shifts. In my experience in courts over the years, there is inevitably a mix of roads traffic policing for drink and drug driving. It is the gardaí who are on the streets late at night when people are coming out of the pubs and driving home who are the ones detecting offenders...

Transfer and Processing of Passenger Name Record Data: Motions (17 Apr 2024)

Pa Daly: .... We will not be opposing these motions. I agree that the processing of PNR data has become a widely used law enforcement tool in the EU and beyond to combat terrorism and serious crimes, such as drug-related offences and human trafficking. Yet, these proposals are quite simply a matter of police co-operation. Given the ever-deepening links between Ireland and Canada, they are very...

EU Police Co-operation: Motion (10 Apr 2024)

Pa Daly: ...enforced. We recognise international co-operation is necessary to combat the crimes mentioned in the proposal. We will support the motion, given the difficulties and threat to the State from money laundering, drug dealing, people trafficking and smuggling organised by these criminal gangs, who increasingly co-operate among themselves.

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Pa Daly: I have one question. Does this apply to random drug stops? That is one query. I extend sympathies and condolences to people whose lives have changed due to loss of life on Irish roads. Sinn Féin will not be standing in the way of the Minister of State's Bill, but we do feel there are some glaring inadequacies in it. The Minister of State must surely accept that the Bill does...

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Pa Daly: I thank People Before Profit for introducing this Bill. Clearly, a new way is needed for the State’s drug policy. A report of the justice committee last year recommended a policy of decriminalisation be pursued in line with emerging international best practice in respect of the possession of drugs for personal consumption through appropriate legislative reform in favour of a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Pa Daly: ...north inner city, there is a difficulty, and has been a difficulty for years, with a large number of vulnerable people congregating or being housed in temporary accommodation in the city centre? Drug clinics, such as the one in Blanchardstown, have closed. People with vulnerabilities have additional needs and accessing services in the north inner city does not help the level of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Pa Daly: ...been done over the past 25 or 30 years. I hear what Mr. Gallagher says. When we met gardaí and business leaders during the summer in the north-inner city of Dublin, we heard the HSE closed a lot of drug clinics, for example, in Blanchardstown. They were all funnelled in. Vulnerable people, some ex-prisoners and people with drug issues were funnelled in to the city centre but we...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Oct 2023)

Pa Daly: 534. To ask the Minister for Health to investigate a gap in supply for a drug (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44873/23]

EU Regulation on the Transfer of Proceedings in Criminal Matters: Motion (11 Jul 2023)

Pa Daly: ...in illegal narcotics seized. In May, the organisation held its 50th European regional conference, at which its secretary general, Jürgen Stock, commented on these arrests, "Over the last five years, [drug] trafficking and consumption have increased by an order of magnitude, with Europe one of the main transit and destination markets." He further stated, "We continue to see record...

Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)

Pa Daly: ...media sites is a major part of this. Within communities where economic opportunity is limited, it makes for an attractive recruitment pitch and the use of children within the economic functions of a drug gang becomes much easier as a result. Children, those with no criminal record and others. are often used to transport or hold money and drugs. They are less likely to arouse suspicion...

EU Regulation on Collection and Transfer of Advance Passenger Information: Motion (25 Apr 2023)

Pa Daly: ...in a number of countries with co-operation from An Garda Síochána also. Europol said that forces involved in the operation targeted both the command-and-control centre and the logistical drugs trafficking infrastructure in Europe. Thirty tonnes of drugs were seized by officers. If I may quote Europol: The scale of cocaine importation into Europe under the suspects' control...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Pa Daly: ...justice. I realise these statements are on organised crime but let us consider for a comment the impact on some communities. Apart from the fact that they must deal with antisocial behaviour and drug-related violence, there are up to 15,000 heroin users in Dublin alone, with one drug advisory and treatment centre. Between 2004 and 2017, there were 8,995 drug-related deaths in this State,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: 668. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of prescriptions of a drug (details supplied) through the drugs payment scheme to date.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6812/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: 666. To ask the Minister for Health the process in writing by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain a drug (details supplied); the availability of said drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6810/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: 667. To ask the Minister for Health his views on allowing GPs to prescribe a drug (details supplied). [6811/23]

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Pa Daly: .... Whenever I think of new legislation, I think of two cases from my previous work history. The first is when I was called to Store Street Garda station in the aftermath of the introduction of the drug trafficking offences legislation, which was supposed to target the large-scale criminals, the drug lords. The first person I was called to see was a young woman who was living in the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: I have slight concerns about these provisions. They relate not so much to the later ones, which relate to analysing drugs, for example, but to where a medical practitioner is giving evidence of what he or she saw. In such cases, will there still be an opportunity for the evidence to be tested in the courts and cross-examined? Often, it is only when evidence arises to the effect that there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Sanctions for the Possession of Certain Amounts of Drugs for Personal Use: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Pa Daly: ...Condon and Mr. Tynan about their proposals. It has been suggested that small amounts should be decriminalised, as opposed to the stuff coming into the market in larger amounts. Do they think all drugs should be decriminalised? At what level do they think it should become a criminal offence? Those are my two questions.

Defamation Act 2009 Review: Statements (11 May 2022)

Pa Daly: ..., when a story was being written about somebody else, was going to, as those family members said, defame a relation. The newspaper was going to state that another member of the family was a drug addict and that she had worked in prostitution. The family members said that was not true. The woman in question had passed away the year before. We were not a legal practice that specialised...