Results 1-9 of 9 for drugs speaker:Mary Fitzpatrick

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2024)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...service broadcasting. Dr. Chris Luke, who is a columnist with the Irish Medical Times, and Mr. Luke Loughlin, who is a Westmeath GAA player, talked in a really calm, balanced and informed way about drug and alcohol use in our society, and not in our society as people read about it in the newspapers or see it on social media or how it is portrayed on other media, but how it actually occurs...

Seanad: Recent Violence in Dublin City Centre: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...but we need to address the root causes of the lack of safety and public order. We need to ensure there is an elimination, that is an absolute tackling and ending of the ongoing, consistent, persistent and open drug dealing, usage and distribution in the city centre. I could set my watch by it. I refer to all the other antisocial behaviour that goes on and that makes people uncomfortable...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...a society, we have an uncompromising response to crime and antisocial behaviour, it will continue. This is about tackling the small, casual, opportunistic criminal and antisocial behaviour such as drug dealing, drug distribution, illegal dumping and unmuzzled dangerous animals with no leads in public spaces. It is all of that and it is also about resourcing our gardaí, making sure...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Provision (11 Oct 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: .... When will Dublin City Council break ground on that site? When will we actually start to see construction? In the interim, the site has become such a destination for antisocial behaviour, crime and drug dealing. I thank the city council for responding to my requests and I thank the gardaí for responding to my requests but it had become such a destination for antisocial behaviour...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2023)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...to refugees and those who are suffering. If we can, we should donate to the Irish Red Cross and the Irish Emergency Alliance. More locally, in Dublin Central I want to celebrate today the really bad news for drug dealers and anybody engaged in antisocial behaviour around O'Devaney Gardens, including people who opposed the building of homes there. I want to really shout the great news...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...State with responsibility for the OPW to give us a date for commencement of works on a commemorative centre at the national monument. She might also ask the Minister of State with responsibility for drugs and the Minister for Justice to engage with the city council and local gardaí to address the issues that exist. O'Connell Street is about more than those issues. It is our main...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...for Dublin. There should not be a hierarchy of citizens' assemblies. The process works very well, is very constructive and has led to great change in our society. We absolutely need a citizens' assembly on drugs-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Feb 2022)

Mary Fitzpatrick: There is a commitment within the Government to holding a citizens' assembly on drugs. I absolutely support that and it is one on which we should ask the Minister for Health to update this House in regard to when it will be convened. I welcome the commitment of €8 billion to retrofit homes. It will allow people who own their own homes, or who own and operate public buildings and...

Seanad: Sláintecare Implementation: Statements (19 Oct 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...incomes to access healthcare when they need it, including the extension of the provision of free medical care to six- and seven-year-olds, the extension of the provision of dental services to medical card holders and the reduction in the drugs payment scheme threshold. We all know that the job is not done, but it is going in the right direction. We must encourage all those involved in...