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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (28 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...diabetes mellitus; parkinsonism; epilepsy; phenylketonuria; haemophilia; spina bifida; hydrocephalus; and conditions arising from the use of Thalidomide. Under the LTI Scheme, patients receive drugs, medicines, and medical and surgical appliances directly related to the treatment of their illness, free of charge. While there are currently no plans to extend the list of conditions, it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (28 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...been prescribed for the purposes of alleviating the symptoms of menopause. This measure is targeted at assisting women who do not have access to a medical card or whose HRT costs fall below the current Drugs Payment Scheme threshold of €80 per month. Prescription charges for medical card holders will no longer apply when such HRT products are dispensed to them. Reimbursement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 May 2025)

Colm Burke: ...between Government and the Dublin Simon Community to improve access to healthcare services. The facility includes step-up and step-down beds for acute services, and inpatient treatment beds for drug stabilisation, detoxification and recovery. The Department of Health has provided an additional €5.9m to-date to meet the operational costs for 51 beds in the new facility and to...

Independent External Medical Audit for Children's Health Ireland and National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh: Statements (27 May 2025)

Erin McGreehan: ...feel lost in bureaucracy and need to be given answers quickly and efficiently. There are children who are learning to walk again, who were discharged in agony and who were given incredibly strong drugs with no follow-up. It is incredibly upsetting. It is unbearable for me to think of the size of those wee people affected by it. Transparency, openness, flexibility and support for those...

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Matt Carthy: ...Gridziuska was travelling was stopped by the Garda. There was no tax, no NCT and the insurance had been secured fraudulently. Driven by one known criminal, the passengers comprised of other known drug dealers, including Gridziuska, but there was no search, no arrests or no seizure of the car. Gridziuska was told to take the steering wheel and then he drove on down the road to hit Shane...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Marie Sherlock: There is a reality for public health patients that they have less access to lifesaving drugs compared to private patients and patients in the North, the UK and other countries. We know that only about one third of medicines approved by the EMA ever get authorisation to go on the market and onto the reimbursement lists here. An EU directive is aimed at broadening access to medicines. In...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (27 May 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Teresa Costello: ...as possible. Several steps were promised. We pledged to increased clinical trials and to better support clinicians, researchers and healthcare staff in these efforts. We committed to reviewing the drugs reimbursement process and implementing the Mazars review recommendations so that the entire approval pipeline would be properly resourced. We promised to explore early access schemes,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: ...addiction services for women in particular. We know from the statistics that women face specific barriers in accessing services. There is a stigma attached to women suffering from alcohol, drug or gambling addictions, which can be very disruptive in their lives. Women are often reluctant to come forward at an early stage and to seek support because quite often they fear that their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (27 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: The legislation required to subject hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) to control measures under the Misuse of Drugs legislation is currently being finalised along with additional substances and will be going to Government shortly. The focus of policy and action in relation to vapes containing nicotine is to reduce uptake by children and young people. The Public Health (Nicotine Inhaling Products)...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (27 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I propose to take Questions Nos. 633, 700 and 777 together. The HSE has statutory responsibility for decisions on pricing and reimbursement of medicines under the community drugs schemes, in accordance with the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. Therefore, I have asked the HSE to provide an update in relation to treatments for SMA patients. The HSE has advised...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (27 May 2025)

Sorca Clarke: 664. To ask the Minister for Health the number of drug related deaths involving homeless women and men in 2022, 2023 and 2024; the number of those that died that had a known history of mental health issues; the average age of these men and women, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26942/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 May 2025) See 1 other result from this answer

Pádraig Rice: 800. To ask the Minister for Health if a drug will be made available to patients for certain types of gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancers under the HSE reimbursement scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27684/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 May 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ...;128 million for new medicines, which has facilitated the introduction of 194 new medicines. 74 of these are for treating cancer as well as 49 for rare diseases. This brings the total spend on cancer drugs in the last three years to over €645 million. In 2024, the HSE launched an application tracker to increase transparency in the medicines assessment process. For 2025, the HSE...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 May 2025)

Paul Lawless: .... It is being sold legally in the State. It is being purchased and consumed by teenagers. Recently in my constituency of Mayo I heard of a harrowing case of a young teenager who consumed the drug not realising how dangerous it was because it was so freely and readily available. It ruined his life. He had to withdraw from school to try to get himself off HHC. The fact is that it is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 May 2025)

Aubrey McCarthy: .... Often, rehabs such as Tiglin ring families to say they have beds for the families' loved ones only for those loved ones to have passed away due to overdose. The recent statistics on deaths from drugs have been horrendous. I know personally that recovery is possible. I have seen it at first hand, not just from the data, but from the stories of people who have come through Tiglin. I...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 May 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Martin: ...to construct the facility. That provides for the 51 beds that were, up to now, in temporary locations. These include step-up and step-down beds for acute services and inpatient treatment beds for drug stabilisation, detoxification and recovery. Up to 700 treatment episodes-----

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...secretariat in advance. I look forward to working with them. I am a second-term Senator and previously served on the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the drugs committee and the children and disabilities committee. I was nominated to this Seanad by RGDATA, which represents more than 3,500 indigenous independent Irish food retailers, so I obviously...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: ...has offered to meet everybody. That was appreciated as well. It is hard to follow members like Deputies Burke and Daly with their CVs. I have a particular interest in rare diseases and orphan drugs, which Senator Costello mentioned, and the whole reimbursement system. I jointly chaired the cross-party group on rare diseases over the past three years with Deputy John Lahart. I look...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (21 May 2025)

Sorca Clarke: ...the criteria for which atropine 0.01% eye drops, prescribed for myopia, to limit the risk of damage to eyes and potentially detached retinas is not on licence, and therefore not covered by the drug payment scheme. [26317/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 May 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Martin: ...e-scooters and scrambler bikes. He referenced how some of these new vehicles are being utilised as part of criminal enterprises, particularly the utilisation of young minors in the distribution of drugs. This is a very serious issue which demands a review of the entire regulatory framework governing scramblers and e-scooters. There are positives too, particularly for the elderly...