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Proceeds of Crime (Investment in Disadvantaged Communities) (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (28 Apr 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...legislation is straightforward and there is widespread support for the idea behind it. We also welcome the Government's idea of a community safety innovation fund. We have been dealing with a drugs pandemic for a considerable time. While it may impact across society, it particularly affects working-class areas, such as those in my own area in Dundalk. In the past fortnight, I have...

Children (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (11 Mar 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: .... Given the situation I spoke about earlier, like Deputy Kenny I think it is a fair point to make. It is very hard in the context of general justice issues not to refer to the pandemic of drug crime that we are dealing with across the board. In fairness, I have spoken in this Chamber and privately to the Minister on the matter. We need a holistic system that delivers for us. We all...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Citizens' Assembly (3 Mar 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 926. 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. [11808/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy (3 Mar 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 927. To ask the Minister for Health if the mid-term review of the actions in the national drugs strategy is on course to be agreed in Q1 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11809/21]

Counterfeiting Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Feb 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...or white-collar crime. As Deputy Ward said, the connection between what we sometimes term white-collar crime and the cleaning process is not that much removed from the organised crime and drugs gangs ravaging communities. Deputy Mairéad Farrell outlined that at times the State has been slow to update and upgrade infrastructure and legislation and that sometimes we have been...

Criminal Procedure Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Feb 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...by logjams in the courts. The major issue I brought up previously with the Minister and with the Minister of State, Deputy James Browne, is the fact that even when we had huge Garda operations against serious drug dealers and organised crime figures that were successful, in some cases the hold up was at the courts level. That is one aspect we need to fix. I have said many times...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (10 Feb 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 725. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects online engagements for the citizens' assembly on drug use to be convened. [6426/21]

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...social media. As we are talking about crime, I could not let the moment pass without dealing with some of the traditional elements of crime that are still with us. I have talked before about the drugs pandemic. It is one that will be with us when we are beyond this particular and tragic Covid-19 situation. In fairness to the Minister, Deputy McEntee, and the Minister of State,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Jan 2021)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 267. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE executive management team will consider the recommendations and decide on the approval for reimbursement of the drug dupilumab; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4802/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Citizens' Assembly (10 Dec 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 169. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the citizens' assembly will be convened to consider the matter of drug use. [41791/20]

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages (9 Dec 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...ensure it happens and will have the suite of services that are required, including mental health services. I have spoken to the Minister a number of times about the part of his remit that relates to drugs. We all agree that we do not have the addiction services that are required. We are missing wholesale elements of the care package people require. We need to start having the right...

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...them. In relation to that, I will commend when the State apparatus works. I commend what happened today in Dundalk, where the Criminal Assets Bureau along with local gardaí, on work started by the local drug squad, carried out a huge operation where they seized drugs and money, and there will be a follow-up. That is not an entire answer in relation to that but it is to be...

Community Safety and Preventing Crime: Statements (18 Nov 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...that is able to deal with the fact that kids are getting involved in crime at earlier ages. I refer both to serious anti-social behaviour and children being groomed by crime gangs to engage in drug dealing. We need a system that will deal with this. We must involve all the stakeholders. The difficulty is that these services, whether provided by the State or by NGOs, are generally...

Scrambler Motorbikes and Quad Bikes: Motion [Private Members] (17 Nov 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ..., for them, is an absolute nightmare. We need to ensure we do all we can do deal with this issue. Reference was made to the anti-social behaviour element and even to scramblers being used in drug runs. Later this week, Sinn Féin will deal with the issues of the lack of addiction services and interventions and the need for more community policing. The motion before the House...

Education (Admission to Schools) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Nov 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...who were never given the supports they required and who then, later in life, due to bad choices that are, in turn, down to bad opportunities end up in bad places. We have all dealt with these sorts of circumstances. The drugs problem and other societal problems all stem from this. We, therefore, need to deal with the very simple issues we have here. If it is something like this,...

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...streams for criminals. We must ensure that banks and our legal and policing frameworks are able to deal with this. The football field rave that we saw recently shows the epidemic level of the drugs scourge, leaving aside the breaches of pandemic restrictions and those difficulties. We must deal with the wanton criminality and drug dealing. This is one of the ultimate cash businesses...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I would like an answer in regard to the timeline for the citizens' assembly on drugs. Obviously, many in this House and beyond will accept we have a huge drug problem as it relates to addiction, to the lack of services, to criminal gangs and to drug debt intimidation and the huge impact this has on communities and families. I was shocked the other day when the Minister of State with...

Public Health, Well-being and National Drugs Strategy: Statements (10 Sep 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I welcome the fact that the programme for Government mentions convening the Citizens' Assembly to look at the overall problem we, as a society, have with illegal narcotics and the drug debt, intimidation, violence and criminality associated with them. There is also the impact addiction has on communities and families and a lack of services. Regional task forces that are operating on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (10 Sep 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...behind. I have recently been in houses in major urban areas in Dundalk that have been firebombed. I have also been out in north County Louth, where houses have been attacked in cases of attempted drug debt intimidation, putting pressure on parents to pay their children's debts. This is happening across the board. It is becoming absolutely normal for many people. We need to make sure...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (10 Sep 2020)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: 6. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding allocated to implementing the national drugs strategy in County Louth; and if there is scope to increase funding following the outcome of the recommendations presented in the Drogheda scoping exercise. [22994/20]