Results 41-60 of 156 for drugs speaker:Jack Chambers

Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: ...to public service. The Programme for Government: Our Shared Future contains a commitment to progress the establishment of a number of new citizens' assemblies, including on biodiversity loss, drugs use, the future of education and the type of directly elected mayor and local government structures best suited to Dublin. The most recent citizens' assembly, which was on gender equality,...

Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: ...a position on the matter and has decided to establish and run the assemblies on the directly-elected Dublin mayor and on biodiversity loss first, to be followed as quickly as possible by assemblies on drug use and the future of education. As I said in my opening statement, the sequencing of these assemblies does not indicate or imply a hierarchy of importance. It is a recognition that...

Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (22 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: ...assemblies. The Government has decided to establish and run the assemblies on the directly elected mayor of Dublin and on biodiversity loss, to be followed as quickly as possible by assemblies on drug use and the future of education. The sequencing of these assemblies does not indicate or imply a hierarchy of importance. It is, however, a recognition that all of the four assemblies...

Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (22 Feb 2022)

Jack Chambers: ...community and the Members of the Oireachtas who played a central role in the previous assemblies, for their hard work and their commitment to public service. Maith sibh. The Programme for Government: Our Shared Future committed to progress the establishment of a number of new citizens' assemblies, including assemblies on biodiversity loss, drug use, the future of education, and the type...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2021 (Resumed)
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (3 Jun 2021)

Jack Chambers: ...following completion of the current Citizens' Assembly. The programme for Government also provides for the establishment of citizens' assemblies to consider matters relating to biodiversity, drug use and the future of education. The timing of these future citizens' assemblies is under consideration, as are the format and methodology they might take. Any decision will be guided by the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (3 Dec 2019)

Jack Chambers: 110. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of the drawdown of anti-malarial drugs prescribed to individual Defence Forces members operating in sub-Saharan Africa in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of troops prescribed each drug, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50010/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (5 Nov 2019)

Jack Chambers: 99. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of members of the Defence Forces prescribed lariam in the past 12 months; the number prescribed the drug in each of the years 2015 to 2018; if members of the Army Ranger Wing have been prescribed the drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45277/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Trials (2 Oct 2019)

Jack Chambers: 186. To ask the Minister for Health if clarity will be provided on a clinical drug trial relating to Duchenne muscular dystrophy for which Dublin would be a trial site (details supplied); the reason the drug trial was not carried out in Dublin; if this was due to a decision by the company; if so, the reason provided for the decision not to use Dublin as a trial site; the efforts under way to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (11 Jul 2019)

Jack Chambers: 330. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the divisional breakdown of gardaí allocated to drug units in each of the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30530/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: ...support unit withdraws from certain areas and that puts people in those communities under pressure and stress. The planned expansion is very welcome. Another linked issue is the epidemic of drugs and the connected gangland consequences. Is the Commissioner satisfied with the number of drugs units that we have? There seems to be a deficit in parts of Dublin and units are having to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Reform and Related Issues: Discussion (26 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: ...xed;ochána doing anything to penetrate the modern technology we have? Historically, it may have deployed 20 gardaí in a particular area to monitor and try to address the cell structures relating to drug dealing and build a picture. How is it trying to penetrate the modern network, which is very much IT-driven? What is being done at European level? It is not just an issue in...

Defence Forces: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: ...quickly as they can. I wish the measures the Minister of State and the Government have belatedly introduced to stem the flood were not the abject failures they have been. I wish morale among our serving men and women was sky high and not on the floor. I wish our naval vessels had enough staff so they could go out to sea and stop the huge quantities of drugs being trafficked into the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Further Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Further Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Further Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Further Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Jack Chambers: ...the Garda armed support unit? There have been significant gangland difficulties in my area, which in many cases is connected to Ireland being seen as part of the cell structure for the European transit of drugs. How are the Department of Justice and Equality and An Garda Síochána positively addressing this? We have had some successes but unfortunately they have been a drop in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (26 Mar 2019)

Jack Chambers: 673. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure the European Medicines Agency progresses its assessment of authorising a particular drug (details supplied) for persons under 18 years of age as quickly as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13082/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (14 Feb 2019)

Jack Chambers: 160. To ask the Minister for Health if an anomaly regarding medication available under the drugs payment scheme (details supplied) will be removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7479/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Interim Report on Review of Youth Referrals: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2019)

Jack Chambers: ...growth, but I have concerns about the allocation of numbers. My area of west Dublin has had a census change in the population and we have serious crime in certain areas more than in others. We do not have drugs units in some areas while there may be historical retention of drugs units in other areas that do not have the same issues with drugs. What is An Garda Síochána doing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (18 Dec 2018)

Jack Chambers: 451. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be restored for drugs services in the local drugs and alcohol task force areas that have had a 30% reduction over the past ten years in view of calls by community groups and agencies in Ballymun and the recent rise in anti-social behaviour and crime linked to crack cocaine in the area. [53357/18]

Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2018)

Jack Chambers: ...shameful defence of the lack of action by the State. He did not take into account what I said in my opening remarks about the quantification of damages by the failure of the State to remove the drug. While he mentioned that the State has an ongoing commitment to these survivors, what he outlined today is very worrying. It is an ongoing alliance between the State Claims Agency and a...

Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2018)

Jack Chambers: ...accrual of the cause of action and the bringing of the action as, in the interests of justice, would warrant its dismissal. The lifetime of thalidomide survivors has been blighted by the consequences of a drug taken by their mothers when they were in utero. The survivors were born with injuries that have an exceptional level of effect. People have had to endure significant physical and...

Implementing the National Drugs Strategy: Statements (28 Jun 2018)

Jack Chambers: I am sharing time with Deputy John Curran. We intend to take five minutes each. I am pleased to be able to speak on this issue. I am pleased that the new national drugs strategy was published last year. I was previously the spokesperson on drugs for the party. That role has been taken over by Deputy Stephen Donnelly, but I am glad to speak on the issue. I am glad the Minister of...