Results 21-40 of 60 for drugs speaker:Gary Gannon

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (14 Feb 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...Where is the record of achievement? Deputy McDonald asked for a review. I would like a review. The Taoiseach may remember that the reason the north east inner city task force was initiated to combat drug related crime, poverty and dereliction in the area. Six years later and with €38 million spent, what can be pointed to as a record of achievement? Young people are still being...

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...xed;ordáin, for the motion. It is important and I am delighted we have the opportunity to speak about the matter. It is often said, and has been said several times today in the Chamber, that the war on drugs has failed. All of us with good intentions see that it has failed in that it has not done anything to alleviate the suffering of affected communities. When I think of this, I...

Dublin City Safety Initiatives and Other Services: Statements (17 Nov 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...the issues of safety in Dublin. If we start by looking at long-term solutions, let us begin from a very simple premise. I am delighted that the Minister of State, who has responsibility for the national drugs strategy is with us. We can all agree that wherever they come from and whatever their situation, nobody grows up wishing to be afflicted by the scourge of drug addiction. Nobody...

Coercion of a Minor (Misuse of Drugs Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: I support the Bill in the fullest and congratulate Sinn Féin on proposing it. We will be supporting it fully and hope it goes through. The Bill seeks to ban the coercion of minors into drug dealing. We see the full effects of this activity in many of our communities every week and every day. When you think about the coercion of minors into the drug trade or try to describe it to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Substance Misuse (20 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...what has been happening down the laneways off O'Connell Street and in streets and laneways all over this city every single day and night. There are people in various states of trauma and people taking drugs, not for recreational purposes but to alleviate suffering they experienced at some point in their life. I need to see that the Minister of State understands this issue and will...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Substance Misuse (20 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...the metrics contained in that strategy? How relevant is it today? Was it changed to address the needs, demand or the accelerated urgency post Covid, when a lot more people had become involved in complex drug-taking? A lot more people were forced onto the streets again to drink alcohol with harmful effects on them. I wish to make a point on the moneys that are placed into the north...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (19 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about a possible date for the proposed citizens' assembly on drugs. The issue of drugs has been once again brought to the fore by two matters in particular, the first being the episode of "Prime Time" broadcast last night which discussed the matter in detail and the second being the unfortunate comments yesterday of a Government Deputy which reduced people...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...Taoiseach not believe a good starting point would be to establish a task force to address the issues raised? Each of the Ministers has a responsibility. It relates to health because of the level of drug addiction and complex needs there. The Minister for Justice said she was going to clean up the streets but that language will not be helpful. It relates to local government because the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...capital city. There are issues there that go across Departments and strike at the very heart of problems like the absence of local government, health and how we treat people who are in the throes of drug addiction, and justice with respect to how we police these streets. This warrants a discussion in the Chamber. I ask that we do it at the nearest available opportunity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Justice for Colombia: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: I thank our contributors today from Justice for Colombia. I will get down to the brass tacks of the issues impacting Colombia. President Petro has made some recent statements in relation to the drugs trade and its impact on Colombia. Can Mr. Dodwell go into some of the international complicity in terms of the drugs trade? When you are in Colombia, you cannot help but notice that many of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Justice for Colombia: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: The coca farmers are not the ones making the money from the drug trade. Who is making the money from the drugs trade?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Justice for Colombia: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: It is the responsibility of all of us, though, to highlight the trail of money that leads to the devastation, be it in Colombia or in working-class communities here, from the drugs trade. It is not the people, either growers in Colombia or people who are suffering from drugs in Ireland or elsewhere, who are making the money from the trade but they certainly experience the devastation. We...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (11 Oct 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...Health if pregnant women and persons suffering from hyperemesis will need a prescription from an obstetric consultant prescription in order to access cariban free of charge; and the reason that the drug considered as a first-line treatment in HSE guidelines will not be free if prescribed by a GP. [50381/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Jun 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...last year through women experiencing this condition. Cariban is one step in the treatment plan for this condition that alleviates some of the excruciating suffering. It is not available on the drugs treatment plan or through the medical card. This matter has been raised on numerous occasions. I ask for an update on when Cariban will be made available free of charge, I hope, on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...affordability and access to Cariban by considering it for reimbursement as an exempt medicinal product under the medical card while the report from the HSE Medicines Management Programme on the drug is being considered (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24366/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 683. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the situation of 35 children with cystic fibrosis (details supplied) who are being denied access to the life-changing drug kaftrio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24368/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (1 Mar 2022)

Gary Gannon: 815. To ask the Minister for Health when the review from the HSE medical management programme on the drug Cariban was completed; if it will be published; and if he will provide a timeline for the decision for reimbursement to be made in relation to the drug. [11790/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (17 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...suffering from hyperemesis. The women's health task force and the medicines management programme were recently tasked with finding a solution when it comes to the treatment of hyperemesis with the drug Cariban. Cariban is the first stage in the treatment algorithm for hyperemesis in our national guidelines but it is unlicensed in Ireland and unavailable for reimbursement, with treatment...

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...na, the Defence Forces have, time and again, protected the State from internal threats and, in more recent decades, the aid to civil power relationship has evolved to take on transnational terrorism, human trafficking and drug interdiction, with joint air and naval maritime defence and security patrols taking place in Ireland's exclusive economic zone. In addition to their routine defence...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...from hyperemesis during pregnancy, a debilitating condition that causes extreme levels of nausea and vomiting. The national guidelines for the treatment of hyperemesis specifically refer to the drug Cariban as the first stage in its treatment algorithm. However, in Ireland, there is a complete lack of affordability when it comes to Cariban. A treatment can cost up to, and more than,...