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Meeting Four: Presentations

Opening Session

09:05 – 09:15: Overview of Submissions to Public Consultation Process – Cathal O’Regan, Secretary

Session 1 – Supply-side issues

09:15 – 09:25: An international perspective – Michael O’Sullivan, former Executive Director of MAOC-N (Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre, Narcotics)

09:25 – 09:33: An EU perspective Andrew Cunningham, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) (no slides)

09:33 – 09:41: A national perspective – Seamus Boland, Detective Chief Superintendent, Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau

09:41 – 09:49: A perspective on youth issues and responses Dr. Sean Redmond, Adjunct Professor in Youth Justice, School of Law, University of Limerick

09:49 – 09:57: A perspective on community issues and responses – Siobhan Maher, DRIVE Coordinator

DRIVE Report: Executive Summary

Session 2 – Courts

11:10 – 11:20: Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Judge Ann Ryan, retired District Court judge (speaking notes)

11:20 – 11:30: Case Study: The Drugs Treatment Court. Maeve Foley, Courts Service and Fiona Carolan, City of Dublin Education and Training Board

11:30 – 11:40: Lived Experience perspectives – Paula Kearney and Anthony Lee

Session 3 – Prisons

13:45 – 13:52: Dr. Caron McCaffrey – Director General, Irish Prison Service (no slides)

13:52 – 13:59: Fergal Black Director of Care and Rehabilitation, Irish Prison Service (no slides)

13:59 – 14:16: Sheila Connolly CEO, Cork Alliance Centre – Brian O’Sullivan and Keith Purcell, Lived Experience

14:16 – 14:21: Lived Experience perspective

14:21 – 14:28: Ashling Golden – Solas and Compass Prison Programme

Compass booklet

Session 4 – Pathways and options

15:40 – 15:50: Justin Kelly, Assistant Commissioner, An Garda Síochána

15:50 – 16:00: Mark Wilson, Director, the Probation Service

16:00 – 16:10: Tony Duffin, Chair of National Drugs Strategy Strategic Implementation Group on Alternatives to Coercive Sanctions

Session 5 – Stakeholder Perspectives

Sunday 09:00 – 09:07: Eddie D’Arcy – Youth Workers Against Prohibition

Submission to the Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use from Youth Workers Against Prohibition (form)
- Attached document

09:07 – 09:14: Prof. Anne Doherty College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

Submission to the Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use from the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland (form)
- Attachment one
- Attachment two

09:14 – 09:21: Graham Temple – Crainn

09:21 – 09:28: Prof. Bobby Smyth – Cannabis Risk Alliance

Submission to the Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use from the Cannabis Risk Alliance (form)
- Attached document

Session 6: Exploring Legal Frameworks

Brendan Hughes, EMCDDA
Prof. Tom O’Malley, Galway University (no slides)
Dr. James Windle, UCC
Prof. Yvonne Daly, DCU
Prof. Andrew Percy, QUB
Prof. Deirdre Healy, UCD

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