Results 1-20 of 158 for drugs speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (26 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of national importance, namely, in light of the CSO finding that arrests for drug dealing are up 40%, indicating a major increase in drug-related crime, the urgent need for the Government to reinstate a full-time Minister with sole responsibility for the national drugs strategy; make adequate budgets available to...

Cannabis Regulation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Nov 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I welcome the debate on drugs, whether legal or illegal, because society has never fully got to grips with drug abuse and the availability of drugs. I understand the motivation of Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan in tabling the motion and the Bill, but I will not support the motion. I encourage an open and informed debate on drugs. I have encouraged my party to continuously have such a debate;...

Criminal Justice Bill 2007: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will not labour the point except to state that I welcome the fact that drug barons and drug dealers are convicted for ten years by judges, albeit infrequently, but I have a problem with taking away the discretion of the Judiciary. The more drug barons and drug dealers who are locked up, the better. However, I have a problem as to whether this will be effective and whether it will...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Personnel: Defence Forces Personnel (21 Oct 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of soldiers since 2000 who have been administered the drug Lariam prior and during missions overseas; when the Army Medical Corps become aware of severe side-effects of the drug and the fact that other armies no longer issued it as a anti-malaria drug or that it is the drug of last choice for armies; and if soldiers should have been...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (4 Apr 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of national importance, namely, in light of findings from the HSE published today that children as young as eight years old are experiencing drug misuse and one in ten between the ages of 15 and 18 admit to using cocaine, ecstasy and speed, the urgent need for the Government to respond to the demands of the citywide drugs crisis...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Jul 2016)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: .... Ní dhéanfaidh an reachtaíocht seo puinn difríochta don fhadhb mór millteanach atá againn inár sochaí faoi láthair. Ní mór dúinn díriú isteach ar bhealach eile. I have been involved for many decades at this stage in the anti-drugs movements in this city. Nobody can accuse me of being soft on drugs and on drug...

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (23 Oct 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 570: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the comments by a senior Garda Officer (details supplied) to the effect that the local drugs units are re-directed into other policing tasks which emerge thereby disrupting their focus on drugs; and if, in view of the scale of the drugs crisis and associated gangland crime, he will bring...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (30 Jan 2008)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil to discuss the following matter, namely, the fact that the value of drugs seized last year almost doubled from €89 million to €160 million; that the number of drug offences rose by over 20%, with offences of cultivation, manufacture and importation increasing by almost 60%; the number of homicide offences rose by one quarter, many as a result of drug...

National Drugs Strategy: Statements (29 Nov 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...thabhairt don meon úr atá glactha ag an Aire Stáit i leith na ceiste seo ó tháinig sé isteach ina post nua. Tá sé ag déileáil leis an gcruachás in bhfuil an tír faoi láthair ó thaobh drugaí de. Measaim go bhfuil an mí na meala thart anois, áfach. Tá súil agam go bhfeicfí táirgí ón obair a rinne an Aire Stáit i rith an tsamhraidh, go háirithe, nuair a bhuail sé...

Written Answers — Drugs in Prisons: Drugs in Prisons (13 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 330: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way in which the Government will know whether it has been successful in making the prisons drug free when his office admits that it is difficult to quantify the precise level of illegal drugs consumed by prisoners or the numbers of prisoners actually abusing drugs, in view of the covert nature of illicit drug taking...

National Drugs Strategy. (29 Apr 2009)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: What is the alternative mechanism to carry out the work of the national drugs strategy team? Is there any logic to terminating the national drugs strategy team without the alternative being in place beforehand? The Minister of State mentioned transitional arrangements. Is there any logic to terminating or fixing something which is not broken? Perhaps the Minister of State will have to ask...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (17 Oct 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter, namely, to welcome the most recent drugs seizures by the Garda Síochána, including approximately 10 kg of heroin and 4 kg of cocaine seized in Clondalkin and Swords last weekend, the potentially fatal danger of all drug abuse including the deaths of two men in Dublin last weekend as a result...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Since this committee is not an expert committee, I suggest that we write to the Irish Medicines Board specifically to find out its procedures in authorising new drugs coming onto the market and to establish the steps it takes to monitor continually the adverse effects of drugs that are on sale. When it is established that there are serious adverse effects, how is a drug withdrawn from the...

Crime Prevention: Motion. (10 Oct 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...ú nach bhfuil an Rialtas sásta tacú leis. Ní raibh sé sásta tacú le rún cosúil leis seo a chuir muid os comhair na Dála i mí Mheithimh i mbliana a bhí ag impí ar an Rialtas ceist na ndrugaí sa tír seo a thógáil dáiríre. Muna ndéanann sé sin, tá todhchaí uafásach do cheantair sa chathair seo agus a lán bailte lasmuigh de Bhaile Átha Cliath. I support this motion....

Written Answers — National Drugs Strategy: National Drugs Strategy (20 Apr 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: .... 308, 309 and 310 of 30 March 2010, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that it is the first time since the First Report of the Ministerial Task Force on Measures to Reduce the Demand for Drugs, 1996, that drugs is not named as a primary ministerial area of responsibility and is not formally acknowledged or referred to by the relevant Minister in response to structural...

National Drugs Strategy. (30 Nov 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...emerging needs. This is not anywhere near the figure that is required by the 57 proposals so far, only five of which have been dealt with, for emerging needs. That reflects the crisis there is with drugs. It also does not take into account the proposals for emerging needs which were encouraged by the Department. Those proposals will arrive in the Minister's office tomorrow, given that the...

National Drugs Strategy (16 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Amidst the discourse on the economic crisis the drugs crisis has been forgotten. It would be wrong for that to happen given the new report from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. It is a stark reminder of how serious Ireland's drug problem is and the horrific consequences of the failures of successive Governments to make sufficient funding available. The report...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31 (25 Oct 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...'s Garda operation resulting in the seizure of up to 30 kg of heroin, 25 kg of herbal cannabis, a machine gun and ammunition in west Dublin and, given the internationally recognised guideline that drugs seized by law enforcement agencies amount to a mere 10% of the illegal drugs available, the urgent need for the Government to commit the necessary resources and the prioritisation of these...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (21 Mar 2018)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am not a medical expert and I cannot make findings in regard to new or previously used drugs, but I have seen the affects of a drug that was previously deemed fit for purpose but has had devastating affects in defence forces across the world, namely, Lariam, or mefloquine as it is medically known, which it is now proposed to replace with a sister drug, tafenoquine. I am asking that at the...

National Drugs Strategy (16 Nov 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I am surprised by the Minister's response. Is he denying that cuts are being imposed which are affecting people in the communities worst affected by the drugs scourge? Is he denying the death rate? As I said, that figure is most likely an underestimation. For instance, it tends only to include those who die of overdoses, while excluding deaths arising more indirectly from drug misuse,...