Results 221-240 of 501 for drugs speaker:Frank Feighan

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Bodies (13 Oct 2021)

Frank Feighan: The national drug strategy Reducing Harm Supporting Recovery represents a whole-of-government response to the problem of drug and alcohol use in Ireland. It emphasises a health-led response to substance use in Ireland, based on providing person-centred services that promote rehabilitation and recovery. The strategy aims to promote the participation of service users and their families,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Priorities (13 Oct 2021)

Frank Feighan: Strategic action 17 of the National Drug Strategy, Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery, commits to strengthening services to support families affected by substance misuse. The HSE funds a number of organisations that provide family support services at both local and regional levels. The strategy also recognises the role that families can play in the planning, design and delivery of drug and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Programme for Government (5 Oct 2021)

Frank Feighan: The Government agreed to adopt a health-led approach to people who use drugs, following the publication of the report of the working group on alternative approaches to the possession of drugs for personal use, which was informed by 20,000 public responses. The Programme for Government endorses this approach as an important step in developing a public health-led approach to drug use. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (5 Oct 2021)

Frank Feighan: The National Drug Strategy, Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery, recognises the role of families affected by drug use in contributing to the planning, design and delivery of effective addiction services. In Budget 2021, I secured €280,000 in additional funding to support family services. This funding will be used to develop and broaden the range of peer-led, mutual aid and family...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (5 Oct 2021)

Frank Feighan: The National Drug Strategy, Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery, recognises the role of families affected by drug use in contributing to the planning, design and delivery of effective addiction services. In Budget 2021, I secured €280,000 in additional funding to support family services. This funding will be used to develop and broaden the range of peer-led, mutual aid and family...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (5 Oct 2021)

Frank Feighan: ...of a GP visit card, which covers the cost of GP consultations. Diabetes is one of the conditions covered by the Long Term Illness Scheme. Under this scheme, patients with Diabetes can receive drugs, medicines, and medical and surgical appliances directly related to the treatment of their illness free of charge, whether or not they hold a medical card. In October 2015, the Diabetes...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Sep 2021)

Frank Feighan: ...card already have access to most forms of contraception, subject only to the €1.50 prescription charge. Those with a GP visit card are supported to some extent as the clinical consultation cost of contraception is reduced. The Drugs Payment Scheme, for which anyone ordinarily resident in Ireland is eligible, covers the cost of prescription items above a limit of €114 per...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Sep 2021)

Frank Feighan: The Department is aware of the many challenges facing families and communities in Drogheda and the north east region arising from drug-related crime, as documented in the Department of Justice report. In line with the report's recommendations, the Department is committed to improving the availability of drug and alcohol services in Drogheda and surrounding counties. As well as the allocation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Sep 2021)

Frank Feighan: ...subject to protective measures. Number of pods will have regard to the size of venue and substantial social distance between individual pods. In the light of the above, the Department guidance for drug and alcohol support groups and treatment programmes, where participants have mixed immunity status, is unchanged. The Department advise that the maximum number of participants is 20, to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Sep 2021)

Frank Feighan: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces play a key role in the implementation of the national drugs strategy, Reducing Harm Supporting Recovery 2017-2015. To improve accountability across the statutory, community and voluntary sectors and to strengthen the task force model, task forces are required have proper arrangements in place for the selection and renewal of the chairperson and members of the task...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (22 Sep 2021)

Frank Feighan: The funding allocated to Drug and Alcohol Task Forces at the beginning of 2021 is set out in the attached table and remains unchanged from 2020. RDATF 2020 DOH 2020 HSE Total East Coast Area €58,200 €518,500 € 576,700 Midland €136,816 €672,491 ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (21 Sep 2021)

Frank Feighan: The national drug strategy, Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery, sets out government policy on drug and alcohol use for the period 2017 to 2025. The strategy provides an integrated public health approach to drug and alcohol use, focused on reducing the harms for individuals, families and communities and promoting rehabilitation and recovery. The strategy is a dynamic strategy and contains 50...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: State Bodies (16 Sep 2021)

Frank Feighan: As outlined in Parliamentary Questions Nos. 2566 and 2567 of 27 July 2021, the governance and operation of Drug and Alcohol Task Forces is set out in a handbook published in 2011. It defines the role of the task forces within the national and local framework required to address the existing and emerging threats from problem drug use. The Department set up a working group in 2018 to revise the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (15 Sep 2021)

Frank Feighan: ...;la and Merchants Quay Ireland. The Programme for Government commits to the opening a pilot medically supervised injecting facility inDublin City in order to reduce the number of lives lost through drug overdose. The Government has have passed legislation and provided resources to establish this harm reduction and lifesaving service. I remain very supportive of the establishment of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (9 Sep 2021)

Frank Feighan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 956, 1266 and 1269 together. The National Drug Strategy, Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery, recognises the role of families affected by drug use in contributing to the planning, design and delivery of effective addiction services. In Budget 2021, I secured €280,000 in additional funding to support family services. This funding will be used to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2021)

Frank Feighan: The majority of indoor activities are still restricted given the current high level of Covid-19 infection. However, the Dept of Health has supported the continued operation of drug and alcohol support groups and treatment programmes given their importance for the health and wellbeing of participants. It is committed to continue to provide bespoke guidance for this important health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (9 Sep 2021)

Frank Feighan: In Budget 2021, the Department of Health provided funding of €10 million for new measures under the National Drugs Strategy. The details of these measures were subsequently outlined in the HSE National Service Plan 2021. In line with existing practice, an element of this funding was held back in the Department of Health. The level of funding released during the year for delivery of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Sep 2021)

Frank Feighan: ... that those with a GMS (medical) card already have access to most forms of contraception free of charge. Those with a GP visit card are supported to some extent as the clinical cost element of contraception is reduced. The Drugs Payment Scheme, for which anyone ordinarily resident in Ireland is eligible, covers the cost of prescription items above a limit of €114 per...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: The National Drugs Strategy, ‘Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery’ emphasises a health-led response to drug use, providing person-centred services that promote rehabilitation and recovery for people who misuse substances such as cocaine. Recent data from the National Drug Treatment Reporting System (NDTRS), published this month, shows that the prevalence of polydrug use is a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jul 2021)

Frank Feighan: The Health Research Board (HRB) publishes an annual bulletin on trends in the treatment of problem drug and alcohol use, based on the National Drug Treatment Reporting System. The data for 2020 were recently published by the HRB and can be found at the below links: 2020 drug treatment data: www.hrb.ie/publications/publications/11%2C2/ 2020 alcohol treatment data:...