Results 21-40 of 524 for drugs speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (7 Dec 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know which genius thought this one up but this is the last thing that anyone who knows anything about the drugs task forces, the national drugs strategy and community involvement in drugs services would dream up. Communities have been central to the partnership and the framework of trying to tackle the problem within them. They are the experts in many ways. It is a pity that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 363. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on allowing the drug zolgensma to be used in the treatment for spinal muscular atrophy type 1; and if he will address the matter given that it only pertains to one child (details supplied). [31109/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Local Drugs Task Forces (6 Jul 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...combat the use of nitrous oxide; the funding that will be made available to tackle the causes and consequences of nitrous oxide; if he will work with local groups and agencies including the local drugs and alcohol task forces, An Garda Síochána, youth services and schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29614/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (17 Jun 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...counselling continues for those who require it? We also need to build up a new counselling service on the same type of model, a free counselling service as needed by many of the families in the area. The drugs task force in the area has assured me that its portion of the funding from the HSE will remain in the area. I am not sure about the Tusla money. Those were the three streams...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (17 Jun 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...living in those areas, it is vital that a service which can last, rather than a stopgap measure, be put in place as soon as possible. I am happy that the Minister of State has assured us that the drugs policy unit in his Department will liaise with the HSE to ensure that a service is put in place and, if at all possible, that all the community stakeholders will work together to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health and Safety (16 Jun 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she has taken to address the situation of intimidation of parents pupils and staff at the gates of a school (details supplied) by those dealing drugs there in the morning and as children are going home; and if she will commit the necessary resources to ensure that children can go to school and be in school safely including additional CCTV...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug Dealing (16 Jun 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 214. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the open drug dealing and intimidation of parents, pupils and staff at the gates of a school (details supplied); and if she will raise the matter with the Garda authorities and suggest that they dedicate the necessary resources to address the problem. [32192/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (1 Jun 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 516. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the serious level of drug-related intimidation in Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29472/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (1 Jun 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 517. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidents of drug-related intimation that were reported to An Garda Síochána in the Dublin metropolitan area in each year since 2019, in tabular form. [29473/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Crime Data (24 Mar 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 420. To ask the Minister for Finance the drug finds by Customs and Excise and the Revenue Commissioners in each of the past five years calculated as being over €13,000; the counties in which the findings were made; and the type of drugs involved. [13962/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (24 Mar 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1188. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the increase in the past year of incidents of drug-related intimidation in communities; and the additional steps that have been taken by An Garda Síochána to tackle same. [13961/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (24 Mar 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the drug finds by An Garda Síochána and other State agencies in each of the past five years calculated as being over €13,000; the counties in which the finds were made; the types of drugs involved; the number of persons charged and convicted; and the lengths of sentences issued by the courts. [13962/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Mar 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1334. To ask the Minister for Health the additional steps that have been taken to help front-line drug services cope with the additional challenges that Covid-19 and Covid-19 lockdowns have had on drug treatment services and the increased mental health difficulties many of the clients attending or linking in with those services have experienced in the past year; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmaceutical Sector (17 Dec 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 557. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug Plenadren has not been licensed for use in Ireland despite being licensed by the European Medicines Agency nearly ten years ago; and his views on the matter. [44299/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmaceutical Sector (17 Dec 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 560. To ask the Minister for Health if there have been negotiations with the manufacture of the drug Plenadren to obtain a discount supply to threat the few patients in Ireland who would be able to avail of this life-changing drug if it was discounted, subsidised by the HSE or available on their medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44302/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmaceutical Sector (17 Dec 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 561. To ask the Minister for Health if he has had communications with health authorities in other EU states with a view to bulk purchasing the drug Plenadren from a pharmaceutical company (details supplied) to achieve a price reduction for national health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44303/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmaceutical Sector (17 Dec 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 562. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the drug Plenadren is coming off licence in 2021; the steps that can be taken to encourage other pharmaceutical companies to commence production of the drug at a more affordable price for patients or their health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44304/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Nov 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 794. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug Kaftrio has been rolled out for cystic fibrosis patients in Ireland; and if not, the reason. [37935/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (10 Nov 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 776. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body that makes up the membership of the working group of drug and alcohol service providers established by his Department to develop a framework for the restoration of drug and alcohol services; the terms of reference; the funding available; and the timeframe to agree on a programme to deliver this funding to community-based drug projects...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (8 Oct 2020)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 41. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the action he will take to address the legacy of the administration of the anti-malaria drug, Melfoquine Lariam, which has had severe side effects on serving and former members of the Defence Forces. [28827/20]