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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...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. Gestational diabetes is not a permanent or long-term illness and is,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1645. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to alerts issued by the HSE on ketamine (details supplied); the measures that his Department is taking to tackle ketamine use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1099/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Traveller Community (17 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Hildegarde Naughton: The principal officer in the Drugs Policy and Social Inclusion Unit in the Department of Health is responsible for Traveller health. The Mental Health Unit in the Department is responsible for Traveller mental health. The HSE is responsible for the provision of healthcare services for Travellers. This is overseen by the National Social Inclusion Office. The HSE has established the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (17 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Peadar Tóibín: 1721. To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies born with addiction to drugs or alcohol in each of the past ten years. [1532/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...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. Gestational diabetes is not a permanent or long-term illness and is,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Seán Canney: 1747. To ask the Minister for Health if a person on the drugs payment scheme gets two sets of 28-day medication in the one calendar month, if they are obliged to the pay the €80 a second time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1662/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (17 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (17 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Stephen Donnelly: The legislative basis for the MCAP is Statutory Instrument 262/2019, Misuse Of Drugs (Prescription And Control Of Supply Of Cannabis For Medical Use) Regulations 2019. Schedule 2 of the Regulations sets out the three specified therapeutic indications that may be treated under the programme, namely, 1. Spasticity associated with multiple sclerosis resistant to all standard therapies and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: ...over 65 have certain vulnerabilities and we need to identify those as well and have a vaccine available. The way forward is to have a vaccine programme available. The medication is there, the drugs are now there and they have been approved. It is now about moving on and using them effectively. In real terms, doing a vaccination programme means there are real cost savings for the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Paul McAuliffe: I also want to mark the anniversary of Private Seán Rooney. I think all of our thoughts are with the families of peacekeepers who are separated from their loved ones this Christmas. The drugs task force co-ordinator position in Finglas and Cabra has been a funded post for many decades. A vacancy has arisen because the co-ordinator passed away. The recruitment process is under...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...to free GP care in the history of the State, including an expansion of free GP care to children aged under eight and people earning no more than the median household income. We have reduced the drugs payment scheme costs, funded diagnostic scans for patients and agreed a new consultant contract to which approximately 1,000 consultants have already signed up. Regarding medical card...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Citizens' Assembly (14 Dec 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Pauline O'Reilly: ...to be the last one. A decision was made somewhere along the line that it would be, though. I am anxious. With the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss, we knew that we would be facing into a citizens’ assembly on drugs directly afterwards. That assembly concluded its hearings in October. We are two months on and there are still zero updates on a citizens’...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Citizens' Assembly (14 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: ...for Government commits to establishing a Citizens’ Assembly on the Future of Education ensuring that the voices of young people and those being educated are central. The Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use recently held its final meeting and the final report from this assembly is scheduled to be published in due course. The establishment of the Citizens’ Assembly on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...in the country, i.e. full eligibility (medical card holders) and limited eligibility (all others). Adults with full eligibility can access a range of services including GP services, prescribed drugs and medicines, public in-patient hospital services, including consultants’ services, out-patient public hospital services including consultants’ services, dental, ophthalmic and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

...by 13.5%, which was much faster and stronger than other parts of the UK. However, in the middle of that was the pandemic. Northern Ireland came to the response to the pandemic in terms of testing, drugs, etc., so our productivity growth on the face of it is very good but it is actually distorted because of that pandemic period. What has distorted it are the things we have made with our...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (13 Dec 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: ...Senator Lynn Ruane - The need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on the removal of the barriers to access to Naloxone, a medication used to temporarily reverse the effects of opioid drugs. Senator Robbie Gallagher - The need for the Minister for Finance to make a statement on the enhanced reporting requirements to Revenue due to commence in January 2024; and if the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (13 Dec 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Lynn Ruane: ...will see that as a great thing because it is reducing the amount of opioids coming out of a country and going around the world. However, it then leaves a hole because people will create synthetic drugs to which we are probably not ready to respond or catch up with so everything has a consequence. Unfortunately, in the past few months, we have seen what this consequence is. The fact that...

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...more than in 2019. Approximately 75,000 chemotherapy and other anti-cancer therapies have been administered, and some of those patients are exactly the ones who might benefit from this motion. Over the past two years, 50 new drugs have been approved for cancer patients and total funding allocated for new drugs since 2021 is nearly €100 million, supporting 129 new drugs. There have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I have a particular issue with the idea that kids are only in danger if the danger is imminent, for example, if someone is about to hit them with a hammer. People who use their kids to steal or for drug deals are having their kids around absolute danger. There are a huge number of issues which are not been dealt with. I accept this is beyond the remit of what we are dealing with here, but...