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Seanad Éireann · 2024-03-21

Joint Committee on Drugs Use: Motion

FG Mary Seery Kearney · Nominated by the Taoiseach

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I move:

That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders—

(1) a Special Committee consisting of five members of Seanad Éireann be appointed, to be joined with a Special Committee to be appointed by Dáil

Éireann, to form the Joint Committee on Drugs Use (‘the Joint Committee’);

(2) the Joint Committee shall consider the Report of the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use (‘the Report’) and shall provide a response to the subject

matter of the Report, including a reasoned response to each of the 36 recommendations contained in the Report;

(3) the Joint Committee shall report to both Houses of the Oireachtas on the matter before it within seven months of the first public meeting of the

Joint Committee;

(4) the quorum of the Joint Committee shall be four, at least one of whom shall be a member of Seanad Éireann, and one a member of Dáil

Éireann;

(5) Members of either House, not being members of the Joint Committee, may attend and take part in proceedings of the Joint Committee, or any

sub-Committee thereof, but without having a right to vote or to move motions or amendments, save where they attend, pursuant to Standing Orders, as a substitute for an absent member (or for a substitute not in attendance);

(6) the member of Dáil Éireann nominated by the Independent Group in Dáil Éireann to serve on the Joint Committee shall be Chairperson; and

(7) the Joint Committee shall have the powers defined in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (9) and (10) of Standing Order 72.

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