Results 801-820 of 20,065 for drugs

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Butler: ...person; Bed and board; Basic aids and appliances necessary to assist a person with the activities of daily living; and Laundry service. A person's eligibility for other schemes, such as the medical card scheme or the drugs payment scheme, is unaffected by participation in the NHSS or residence in a nursing home. For this reason, medications and aids that are already prescribed for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (20 Sep 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Róisín Shortall: 971. To ask the Minister for Health if, further to the announcement of additional annual funding of €3.5 million for drugs and inclusion health services, he will provide further details on how this additional funding is to be allocated if this money is to be used to remediate deficits in local and regional drug and alcohol task force projects' funding; if it will apply to all DATF...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Sep 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 988. To ask the Minister for Health the considerations that his Department is giving to the inclusion of the drugs saxenda and ozempic, both now recognised as valuable medications in the treatment of obesity, to the drugs payment scheme or medical card scheme for non-diabetic patients; if there are plans to widen the prescription of saxenda and ozempic to medical card holders with a BMI of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Functions (20 Sep 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...charges payable under the GMS Scheme were reduced to €1 per item for those over 70 (with a maximum cap of €10) and to €1.50 per item for those under 70 (with a maximum cap of €15). The Drug Payment Scheme (DPS) provides for the refund of the amount by which expenditure on approved prescribed medicines or medical appliances exceeds a named threshold in any...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Sep 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Noel Grealish: 1015. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make the drug Vydura (rimegepant), available on the DPS scheme; if there is any other scheme available to help an individual with the cost of this drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40546/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (20 Sep 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: In February, I published the Mazars Review which examined the governance arrangements around the HSE’s Drug Pricing and Reimbursement Process. I fully support the recommendations contained in the Mazars report around improving the process, increasing transparency, providing easier access, and supporting value for money. An implementation group has been established between my Department...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (20 Sep 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. Statutory Instrument No. 277 of 1971, put a limitation on Section...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's Water Quality and the Nitrates Derogation: Discussion (15 Sep 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...here in three years' time with the Commission telling us there has not really been much of an improvement in our water quality. Agriculture will be referred to. There is a zeitgeistout there that drug dealers may get a better play in the media now than farmers in terms of how they are being portrayed. This is not to say that farmers do not have an important role to play and do not have...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2023)

Emer Higgins: ...pressure, cholesterol or mental health and medicines people require to regulate their hormones, their breathing or their insulin. People with medical conditions are facing a record shortage of drugs. That is causing huge anxiety for them, their families and their pharmacists. About 60% of the population will be impacted in some way. This matter has been raised with me by people having...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Victor Boyhan: ...It was disappointing that we could not secure any support from the Government Members of this House for amendments relating to two or three issues I will single out today, the first of which is the drug trials that were carried out illegally on children within State care. In many cases, they are still alive and cannot understand why they have been denied some form of justice. Second,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (13 Jul 2023)

Helen McEntee: ...reasons they are unable to disclose details of Garda members assigned to specialist units, however, the information in the following tables set out the number of Garda members by rank assigned to Roads Policing, Community Policing and the Drugs unit in Cavan/Monaghan Division for the years requested. Please note that this information is operational and may be subject to change. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Employment Drug Rehabilitation Projects (13 Jul 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 658. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a restriction on drugs rehabilitation CE schemes advertising vacant T-coded CE participant places on platforms such as publicjobs.ie; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34802/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Local Drugs Task Forces (13 Jul 2023)

Maurice Quinlivan: 662. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to local drugs and alcohol forums in each of the years 2008 to 2022 and in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34854/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (13 Jul 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...of the restoration of HaddingtonRoad Hours to Health staff.There are significant price inflation pressures inrelation to a range of clinical and non-clinical inputs within non-payexpenditure, such as electricity and fuel, drugs costs, transport costs,food costs, cleaning costs, etc. The HSE has the largest non pay budget(excluding Department of Social Protection) in the public service and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (13 Jul 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

David Cullinane: 759. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of reducing the drugs payment scheme threshold in increments of €10 to €0, additive, in tabular form. [35153/23]

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2023)

Maurice Quinlivan: ..., there were 92 community gardaí in Limerick city. As of July 2020, there were 31. This void allows the few nefarious characters to thrive in Limerick. We saw this in several communities. At one stage, there was a 24–7 drug supermarket on a busy residential street. This went on for about three years. The presence of community gardaí often gives reassurance to older...

European Council Meeting: Statements, Questions and Answers (12 Jul 2023)

Thomas Gould: There is a real opportunity at European Council meetings to learn from Europe and to use these learnings to assist us in resolving issues at home. One such issue is the funding to drug and alcohol task forces. The Minister of State may be aware that task forces were in the Dáil last week, including our own task force in Cork. They are operating at a €3 million deficit when...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...anti-racism, anti-poverty and anti-addiction tools we have. Listen to the words of Sherriff Street's Olivia O'Toole. She has 130 caps and 54 goals for Ireland. She saw at first hand how heroine was ripping her community apart in the 1980s and 1990s. She said: When I was around 13, my sister would have been 16 or 17, and I could see her disintegrating before my eyes because of drugs...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (12 Jul 2023)

Michael McGrath: ...in a hospital or nursing home provided the expenses are necessarily incurred in association with the services of a practitioner or refer to diagnostic procedures carried out on the advice of a practitioner; anddrugs or medicines prescribed by a practitioner.A practitioner is defined in the section as "any person who is:registered in the register established under section 43 of the Medical...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (12 Jul 2023)

Hildegarde Naughton: The National Drugs Strategy, Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery, ‘A health-led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland 2017-2025’, sets out a health-led approach to drug use. The strategy supports high quality monitoring, evaluation, and research to ensure evidence-informed policies and practice. Ireland has good information on substance misuse. Routine monitoring provides...