Results 201-220 of 524 for drugs speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Road Traffic Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (13 Apr 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...be totally changed trying to care for someone who has been injured in a road accident. It is important to try to deal with people who take risks getting home from or to work, having taken drink or drugs. A car can be a lethal weapon and the message must go out, with two bank holidays in the coming weeks, that dangerous driving will not be tolerated. Drivers should take care, especially...

Road Traffic Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (13 Apr 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...The other aspect is that this is mandatory testing specifically for intoxicating liquor. At some stage we need to look at some type of complementary mechanism which provides mandatory testing for drugs, whether illegal or legal. There are reports stating that there were quite a number of accidents, which have caused horrific injuries or deaths, where the problem was not intoxicating...

Cabinet Sub-Committees (30 Mar 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Taoiseach suggested that he would take suggestions as to the committees that should be established. Would he consider establishing a Cabinet sub-committee on drugs as there is no longer a Minister or Minister of State with sole responsibility for it? Some of the responsibility now lies with the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald. At the very least there should...

Road Traffic Bill 2011: Second Stage (23 Mar 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...account of the Road Traffic Act 2010. The Bill is important because it gives the new Dáil an opportunity to send a message loud and clear to the public that we will not tolerate drink driving or drug driving and that we will take the necessary steps to reduce the level of drink driving and drug driving in our society. Despite much legislation and many initiatives from previous...

Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (26 Jan 2011)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 43 and 7 of 21 October 2010 and No. 68 of 15 December 2010 in which he stated that the Defence Forces prescribe anti-malaria drug Lariam to its personnel in accordance with the prescribing instructions and information provided by the Irish Medicines Board and that the system employed by the Defence Forces adheres to...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Personnel: Defence Forces Personnel (15 Dec 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...for Defence if he will discuss with the military authorities the need to review the future dispensing of the Mefloquine Larium to soldiers on overseas missions in view of the fact that the drug has been linked with severe psychiatric or psychological and physical side effects, including a number of deaths. [47279/10]

Defence Forces Personnel (15 Dec 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...2003 means the Defence Forces should be on high alert for any suicide. The mere fact that the victim was either taking or had taken Lariam in the past should have resulted in a suspected adverse drug reaction report to the Irish Medicines Board. My question is whether all such cases have been referred to the Irish Medicines Board. Moreover, if the Defence Forces have not compiled and...

Written Answers — Medicinal Products: Medicinal Products (14 Dec 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 159: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has asked the Irish Medicines Board to review their decision in the past to approve the drug Mefloquine or Larium in view of the fact that the drug has been linked with severe psychological and physical side effects, including a number of deaths among soldiers in Ireland who served on missions abroad, and its withdrawal as a...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (14 Dec 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 200: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to reports that US military personnel have been using the drug mefloquine (Lariam) to psychologically torture or experiment with detainees in Guantánamo Bay detention centre, including a practice called pharmacologic waterboarding and the administration on arrival of a dose five times that recommended to...

Social Welfare Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...cuts in training grants under CE programmes, which is illogical in that we are trying to train people to take up work but their training grants will be cut. There will be huge cuts in funding for drugs task forces. These services are based in the most disadvantaged areas. There will be a massive cut in the money available for CDPs. Thank God, I do not have Deputy Gogarty or the Minister...

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Defence that, contrary to military authorities' claims that alternative drugs were available for the treatment of malaria and that Lariam was not the only one, his views on whether the military authorities' continue to issue Lariam because it is cheaper than other more effective anti-malaria drugs [37996/10]

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...

Written Answers — Drugs Policy: Drugs Policy (12 Oct 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 127: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the introduction of a mechanism to coordinate transnational impact assessments of drug policy regimes as advocated by the international drug policy consortium; if so the international arena in which he thinks this could best be anchored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36129/10]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (30 Sep 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...estimated 5,000 job losses in the sector over the year and the scaling back or demise of projects and essential services for children, older people, people with disabilities, people suffering from drug addiction and one-parent families, and the need for the Government to respond to the canal communities who were outside the gates of Leinster House yesterday by recognising that it is both...

Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...the current mechanism of banning of substances has failed because it takes too long. One should bear in mind the rate at which new products are being produced. The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction has suggested and proven that new products are coming on the market at a rate of one per fortnight. The legislation the Minister has proposed is not capable of dealing...

Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...and support to An Garda Síochána and to Customs and Excise. These functions could be added to the remit of an existing committee within the Department, the National Advisory Committee on Drugs, part of whose role is to advise. The reason I suggest this is that the committee has been quite effective, although we have sometimes been critical of the Government's role in combating the...

Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...these amendments because I believe there is a role for a regulatory authority, although I am willing to compromise in favour of giving some of these functions to the National Advisory Committee on Drugs. As the Minister admitted, the committee is already doing work in this field and should probably be further resourced to ensure this work can continue. A prohibition notice can be served...

Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No. 2: In page 4, subsection (1), between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: ""National Advisory Committee on Drugs" or "NACD" is that which was established under the auspices of the Department of Tourism, Sport and Recreation in July 2000 and is now under the auspices of the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs;".

Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2010 [Seanad]: Second Stage (2 Jul 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...'s response has been unacceptable. The ban introduced in May was better late than never, but disgracefully in failing to act for so long, the Government has allowed a demand for these dangerous drugs to be created. The Government's go-slow approach has put people's lives at risk and led to the death of some. This is not just because of Government inaction, but because of people's own...

Controlled Drug Sales (13 May 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...and allowed the emergence of a far wider customer base than simply those people who would normally be attracted to that type of product? Does he agree that that has resulted in the development of drug dependencies by those who might otherwise not have engaged with that type of substance misuse? What steps were taken in advance of the ban, which came into effect this week, to prevent the...