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Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (25 Jun 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 451. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to tackle the rising numbers of drug related deaths; if he is aware that Ireland topped the EU table for drug deaths with more than four times the average number of fatalities according to the European drug report 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26978/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (25 Jun 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 460. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for current and continued investigations on providing approval for a medication (details supplied) on the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27047/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (25 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: 464. To ask the Minister for Health when veoza will be made available on the drug payment scheme and the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27105/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (25 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...nicotine replacement therapies thus reducing the cost of these products to people who wish to stop smoking. I have also recently agreed that nicotine replacement therapies should be included in the Drug Payment Scheme and to remove the two week limit that applied to first prescriptions of these therapies. As part of Budget 2024, an additional 1.1 million euro was granted for the free NRT...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Regeneration Projects (20 Jun 2024)

Patrick Costello: ...reflects the circumstances in the Oliver Bond housing complex, which is also suffering from failed, stalled regeneration. There are issues owing to damp, mould, the lack of facilities, crime, open drug dealing and antisocial behaviour. Earlier this year, we saw reports that the health impacts are so severe in Oliver Bond flats that the residents present with double the amount of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (20 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Helen McEntee: ...provided in all communities. I am assured that Garda management keeps the distribution of resources under continual review. The Deputy may be interested to know that crimes such as burglary, public order offences and drugs offences have all decreased across the county when 2023 is compared with 2019. I am informed by the Garda authorities that at the end of April 2024, the latest...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sentencing Policy (20 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: The US model of community courts received consideration within the Department some years ago and the concept has some similarities with the drug court which has operated in the Dublin District Court since 2001. Several jurisdictions have developed what are sometimes referred to as "problem-solving" courts. Models include community courts, drug courts and restorative programmes. These...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (20 Jun 2024)

Drug Dealing

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (20 Jun 2024) See 8 other results from this debate

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...how it does fabulous work. It also means communities can see that action is being taken and we also need to see policing operations. Unfortunately, we are dealing with a large number of street drug dealers, and there is also the fact that the courts can be backlogged. This means it can be a considerable amount of time before somebody is actually processed and that lesson has not been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Gangland Crime (20 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Paul Donnelly: ...over the past couple of years by this criminal gang. We need to break the cycle, but we need to have that proper investment in our communities. We need early intervention and we need youth and drug services to be properly resourced. I will give the example of Genesis counselling service. I think it was last year that I asked for extra resources for it. It cannot deal with the number...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Rónán Mullen: ...do better when they are brought up by a mother and a father. For example, there are all sorts of social evidence on marriage, educational outcomes, attitudes to law, involvement in criminality and drug taking. A lot of social science points to the advantages children have in certain family situations. We cannot be in denial about reality and what is truthful. Therefore, it is not just...

Committee on Drugs Use (20 Jun 2024)

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (20 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Brendan Smith: 25. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the additional legislative measures that will be introduced to deal with the scourge of drugs throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26532/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (20 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: The Government is committed to ensuring that An Garda Síochána has the resources it needs to tackle drug dealing and associated criminal behaviour, including by organised crime groups. The funding made available to An Garda Síochána has enabled the Commissioner to assign extra resources to the specialist units involved in tackling organised crime. These include the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (20 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Scheme was established under Section 59(3) of the Health Act 1970 (as amended). Regulations were made in the 1970s prescribing 16 conditions covered by the Scheme. Under the LTI Scheme, patients receive drugs, medicines, and medical and surgical appliances directly related to the treatment of their illness, free of charge. Further information regarding the LTI Scheme, including the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (20 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...through general practice, community specialist care and hospital inpatient specialist care. The HSE has statutory responsibility for pricing and reimbursement decisions under the community drug schemes, in accordance with the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. In making a relevant reimbursement decision, the HSE is required under the Act to have regard to a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Jun 2024)

John Lahart: 208. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the availability of the drug skyrizi (risankizumab-rzaa) for patients with severe Crohn’s disease, given the delays due to price negotiations and its current availability in the UK and Europe. [26650/24]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: ...Institutions Statutory Fund Board, also known as Caranua. Section 4 provides for the delivery of a package health supports and services to former residents which will allow them access to GP services, drugs, medications, home nursing and home help, dental, ophthalmic and aural services, counselling, chiropody, podiatry and physiotherapy. This entitlement is a medical card for life and...

Seanad: National Cancer Services: Motion (19 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Tim Lombard: ...We must examine the key structures of the cancer strategy to make sure they are funded so that it can be a key plank of our approach going forward. I wish to raise two issues. One is about new drugs and how we must put a scheme in place to make sure new drugs are a major part of the cancer strategy and are available when needed. We must look beyond Ireland in that regard and have a...