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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Religious, Faith-Based and other Philosophical Perspectives on Assisted Dying: Discussion (5 Dec 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

...real challenge of caring holistically for terminally ill patients as they approach the end of their lives. Third, doctors and nurses are given privileged access to the human body and to the use of drugs, so that they can serve life and health. Assisted suicide presumes that doctors and nurses will be directly involved in the taking of human life. We believe this undermines the essential...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (5 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: The Drug Payment Scheme (DPS) ensures that no individual or family pays more than €80 a month towards the cost of approved prescribed medicines. The DPS significantly reduces the cost burden for families and individuals with ongoing expenditure on medicines who are not eligible for a medical card. The DPS also provides reimbursement support for the costs associated with the rental of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (5 Dec 2023)

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: Medicinal Products (5 Dec 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 585. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug phesgo can be administered by general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53579/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (5 Dec 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Fergus O'Dowd: 609. To ask the Minister for Health as part of Government’s response to drug intimidation, if the full-time recommended role for the drug-related intimidation and violence engagement programme has been progressed, and if it has been affected by the recent moratorium announced within the Health Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53781/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...going missing or running away from home or a care placement despite the fact that some have an intellectual disability, have suffered prior sexual abuse or neglect, or have engaged in alcohol or drug misuse. Unfortunately, this frankly terrifying and explosive report was lost in the media noise generated by the RTÉ payments controversy. It has received nothing like the kind of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Policy (30 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Gary Gannon: ...gates in the inner city and other parts of Dublin and around the country. In my constituency, too often children walk outside of their school gates and are met by antisocial behaviour, open drug dealing and people in various states of intoxication. Those people have problems and are not to be used as a prop in the Dáil. However, there are issues of safety in general around those...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2023)

..., there was a lot of expenditure, but we had a good Covid, if I can use that horrible expression, because a number of pandemic-proof sectors did really well. We were producing the vaccines and the antiviral drugs in Ireland, and everybody went online, so ICT profitability was strong. Corporation taxes essentially doubled between the year before the pandemic and 2022 and that kind of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): Road Safety (30 Nov 2023)

Jack Chambers: ...main causes of collisions on our roads, and the speed of the collision can determine whether death or serious injury results. The new Bill will make it mandatory for gardaí to test drivers for drugs after a collision involving death or injury. Currently, drug testing in these cases is optional. The new approach will be in line with alcohol testing provisions. It is hoped that,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Citizens' Assembly (30 Nov 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 before the end of 2023. The establishment of the Citizens’...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Health Promotion (30 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Brendan Griffin: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how she plans to measure the effectiveness of drug and alcohol awareness programmes in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52813/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Citizens' Assembly (30 Nov 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 before the end of 2023. The establishment of the Citizens’...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Nov 2023)

Helen McEntee: ...Total Accessing Garda Info System 6 Assault 9 Corrupt / Improper Practice 6 Criminal Damage 1 Discreditable Conduct 12 Drugs 5 DVA / Coercive Control 7 Forgery / Fraud 3 Harassment 1 ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Industry (30 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Paul Murphy: 474. To ask the Minister for Health whether he will take action to address the steeply rising insurance costs facing community drug services (details supplied). [52930/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (30 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...treatment medication tyvense; if he will acknowledge the impact the scarcity of this medication is having on people who are prescribed it, especially children with autism and ADHD, who without the drug are unable to go to school, function at home or have quality of life; if he will outline the steps he is taking to secure a regular and consistent supply of the medication and indicate when...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reform of Insurance for Thatched Heritage Buildings: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Pat Buckley: ..., whereas here they might have the capacity to deal with people on a one-to-one basis on this matter. There was another question on motor insurance. We see it when people are caught drunk-driving or drug-driving and are put off the road for a certain period of time. Those individuals had motor insurance prior to the offence, but when they go back in for a quote, having served their...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...because the Garda, for whatever reason - perhaps it does not have the resources - cannot prevent antisocial behaviour occurring there. I refer in particular to congregation for the purpose of drug-taking. What is going to be done to ensure that people in Ennis feel safe going about their business, that public facilities can remain open and that antisocial behaviour is prevented there?...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Regina Doherty: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that No. 10 be taken before No. 1. We are introducing the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) (Control of Nitrous Oxide) Bill 2023. As most Members are aware, nitrous oxide, more commonly known as laughing gas, is probably the recreational drug most abused by those aged 18 or younger. It is probably apt that we have such an abundant number of young...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) (Control of Nitrous Oxide) Bill 2023: First Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Seanad: Recent Violence in Dublin City Centre: Motion (29 Nov 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...but we need to address the root causes of the lack of safety and public order. We need to ensure there is an elimination, that is an absolute tackling and ending of the ongoing, consistent, persistent and open drug dealing, usage and distribution in the city centre. I could set my watch by it. I refer to all the other antisocial behaviour that goes on and that makes people uncomfortable...