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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...surveillance is a major game changer rather than using other security measures. There was some conversation earlier about antisocial behaviour, perhaps as a result of people misusing alcohol and drugs. That probably requires a wider discussion because it impacts on all of us. That is probably for another day. A much more complicated answer to those issues is required. I will ask...

Security Situation in Europe: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...she is here today as we discuss this issue. We have to state plainly that Vladimir Putin is in breach of international law. I see him, in a straightforward way, as the equivalent of the local drug dealer who gets away with burning down people’s houses as leverage. The question is whether he is going to burn down the whole street or is anyone going to bring him to book. That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Year of Youth: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...board. That is one of the issues. The other issue which must be taken into account, and this is accepting all that has been said about the difficulties young people have been through, is the drugs pandemic, an issue we were dealing with in the Dáil yesterday, and the impact it has on young people in particular. It is all-pervasive. That ranges from people who become problem drug...

Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (22 Feb 2022)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...have proven themselves as being sometimes more useful at delivering action and seeing viable solutions than in here and beyond. With many others I am utterly disappointed a citizens' assembly on drugs has not been timed properly. The Taoiseach spoke about the end of 2022 but the Department of Health and the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, state it will be 2023. We need to find out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Potential Russia-Ukraine Conflict and the Role of the European Union: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...who believe their clock was wiped at the end of the Cold War and they will use whatever means they can as leverage. On one level, going up against Vladimir Putin is like going up against the local drug dealer. He has greater leverage because he is willing to burn your house down. The real question, however, concerns how many houses he is willing to burn down. Dictators do not tend to...

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: .... We need an overhaul of that. I will not deal with the issue of addiction and the fact there was a recent report on colleges, but it happens a hell of a lot earlier. Children can get access to drugs, from cannabis right through to cocaine. We need to provide a service that is fit for purpose.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Citizens' Assembly (26 Jan 2022)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 173. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the citizens’ assembly on drugs to convene; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3792/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (19 Jan 2022)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 1332. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the citizens’ assembly on drugs to convene. [2470/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Citizens' Assembly (19 Jan 2022)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 1924. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the citizens' assembly on drugs to convene; if consideration has been given to convening this assembly in an online format; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2469/22]

Appropriation Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...failed absolutely on the ideas of required community and family supports. We are dealing with a major number of social issues, including long-term and multigenerational unemployment, poverty and drugs on top of these. We are dealing with cases where we have failed to make interventions for communities and families. We have let desperate situations continue from generation to generation....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (7 Dec 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...is fair to say that communities have been failed over the years. This is where we are starting from. When we talk to any organisation working in the community and voluntary sector that deals with drug addiction and the communities that are being ravaged by it, they tell us that it has become more difficult to deal with the State. I hope that what the Minister of State is saying will be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (7 Dec 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We are here to discuss the planned removal of the community and voluntary addiction network groups from the national oversight committee on the delivery of the national drugs strategy. We believed the removal was going to happen on Friday. A number of us met and the Minister of State will have received a letter as well as communications from a number of people on this matter. There has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (25 Nov 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: We have all had multiple conversations on the necessity for multi-agency cross-departmental pieces of work that must be done to deal with the issue we have, which is caused by drug gangs and organised crime and the issues they cause in communities, particularly in working class communities. Obviously, the issue blew up in Drogheda, in particular. In fairness, a significant amount has been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (25 Nov 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...go forward in relation to the vital pillars that we need to deliver on, and to deliver what should be a template for how we work in other major towns and cities across the State in dealing with the drugs pandemic.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Reports (25 Nov 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...We had the scoping exercise, the Guerin report, the implementation report and the difficulties in forming the implementation board. We all know the damage, the terror and the tragedy caused by the drug gangs in Drogheda. The question is about delivering on the recommendations of those reports.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug Dealing (25 Nov 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the work of her Department in tackling drug-related intimidation and reporting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58050/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (17 Nov 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...operating outside the borders of the European Union. It is an absolute necessity. It is very hard to see how we would not deal with an issue that the Taoiseach spoke about earlier, namely, the drugs pandemic and organised crime. If we are talking about a strategic risk across the board, that is one I see many of the people I deal with living with daily, whether it is burglary crime...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Policing Reform (16 Nov 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...reforms. In addition, any changes in respect of the structure of An Garda Síochána and community safety forums must consider An Garda Síochána as being part of a holistic solution to the issues we have with drug and organised crime.

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Nov 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...have said that more people have come to them. They generally try to facilitate them, using whatever flexibility they can. There are mad situations where the money moneylenders are getting is literally drug money. The drug money is put back on the street. People then find themselves in really difficult situations, possibly having to pay a drug debt of a family member. That money ends...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Nov 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 1103. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timeframe in which details of the €80,000 funding allocation to improve access and provision of community-based drug and alcohol services will be announced; the assessments that will be used to allocate the funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53280/21]