Results 21-40 of 217 for drugs speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Addiction Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Maureen O'Sullivan for bringing this comprehensive motion forward and highlighting the many important issues it raises. It is timely that such a motion should come forward because alcoholism and drug addiction, particularly heroin addiction, have blighted our society for many years. We are now in an economic recession, with mass unemployment, austerity and cuts being visited in a...

Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (23 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... I can certainly see the value of that. The bigger context for much of this debate is the scandalous manner in which big pharmaceutical companies have used patent restrictions on life-saving drugs, such as AIDS anti-viral drugs, to prevent countries in the developing world from producing cheap generic versions of those drugs. Huge struggles and campaigns have been organised by people...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to know whether the committee has or will discuss several very specific areas of housing. People who do not have drug or drink problems, or who are trying to recover from alcohol or drug problems and are clean of them, are being put in emergency accommodation with active drug users or people with addiction problems. I am dealing with several cases of this nature at present. It is...

Cannabis Regulation: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...opponents of the motion say. I presume it has something to do with health. Let us put a simple fact on the record: there has never been a death in Ireland attributable to cannabis use, not one. "Drugs" is a broad, catch all and almost meaningless term. In what is put under the banner of the label "drugs", virtually every other item leads to deaths, many of which are attributable to the...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...tell them that his housing policies are working. Tell Sinead and her three year old daughter, who was told a few weeks ago to go 12 km into town with her children to a hostel where there are active drug users. She then had to fight to get into a hotel and last week was taken into hospital with stress because she is still homeless. Tell James and his family - a mother and their five...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach knows, one of the biggest issues in areas of significant deprivation is the impact of drug addiction on individuals, families and communities. I have often heard Government spokespeople pay lip service to the idea that we need to move away from the criminal approach to dealing with this problem and take a health-related approach but, in fact, we have not done that at all. I...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of cases in which people who have offered the address of a sister or a brother have problems because this is not acceptable. For example, a guy in Dún Laoghaire who is from the town has a bad drug problem but is trying to kick drugs. There is no place for him in Bentley House, the homeless accommodation centre in Dún Laoghaire. As a result, he is sent into town to find...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be opposing this motion. Let us state it boldly as it is: the war on drugs has failed and the war on gangland criminality via the Special Criminal Court or other repressive legislation has failed. We are just as concerned as the Minister and, in many cases I suspect, more concerned in that some of the Deputies on the left represent some of the poorest and most disadvantaged areas...

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...them, why does the Government not go after the consultants who are doing private work in public hospitals or why does it not go after the multinational companies that are overcharging the HSE for drugs?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (26 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the progress made of receiving price reductions on generic drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41013/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To expand on the medicinal analogy, the Minister sounds like a drug addict who is in denial, who has got to do something about the problem but continues to give himself lethal injections of the poison that is killing him.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Drugs Scheme (6 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 322. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene with the Health Service Executive to ensure that Fampridine, Fampyra, which helps multiple sclerosis patients, is included on the Community Drugs Scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17462/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to commission any reviews on the over-use of drugs in mental health and disability services for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27668/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Health considering his Department's concerns regarding the over-use of drugs with elderly and adult patients, if he has similar concerns regarding children in mental health and disability services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27667/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (15 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 468. To ask the Minister for Health the annual amount he and the Health Service Executive spend on the drug Ritalin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45315/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (20 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...there is a formal or informal policy operating within the health and emergency services of refusing care to mental health and suicidal cases if the individual is under the influence of alcohol or drugs. [7764/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 576. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence why the Defence Forces use the anti-malaria drug Larium, despite its known side-effects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17054/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 577. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will justify the enforcement of the use of the anti-malaria drug, Larium, which has serious side effects, by the Defence Forces abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17055/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (27 Sep 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 762. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of abolishing drug prescription charges. [27484/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Data (26 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1060. To ask the Minister for Health the amount it would cost to reduce the DPS, drugs payment scheme, threshold to €132, €100 and €50, respectively. [36355/17]