Results 1-20 of 626 for drugs speaker:Bernard Durkan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ..., in accident and emergency departments up and down the country, the system is not viable. We need to identify these places. By all means, we should treat those who present with alcoholism or drug-related illnesses, but they should not all be in the same place because that is at cross purposes. We must to deliver to everybody, as is required, but at the same time there are those with...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I wish to bring to the attention of the House the increased use of and dependency on illegal drugs, the damage being done to our society, urban and rural, throughout the entire country, and the urgent need for an enhanced programme of drug treatment and, at the same time, renewed efforts to cut off the supply with the intention of reducing dependency, recognising that all secondary schools...

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (4 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...nothing is left around that could be a facility to continue the habit or to return to the habit, knowing that some people find it very difficult to change and to break their habit. Tobacco is a drug and it has been around for a long time. It is a serious threat to people's lives and well-being, and we have to recognise that and deal with it. That has been recognised before this but...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Maritime Jurisdiction (2 Jul 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the Tánaiste's response to what is a very important issue but also from the point of view of the vulnerability of the State from drug-running, a possible outbreak of hostilities along vulnerable sections of our coastline, and the possibility of our forces being stretched beyond capacity at any given time. What is the extent to which recognition is given that the strength of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (27 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 260. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which financial support or other assistance might be offered to a drug rehabilitation centre (details supplied) in north Kildare; if other treatment centres might be supported in order to meet the growing demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27779/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (20 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 19. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the strength and deployment of An Garda Síochána continues to be sufficient to deal with drug and organised crime in line with population increases and the need to ensure adequate policing in areas currently appearing to have a deficiency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26461/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (20 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This question seeks to focus on the manner in which criminal gangs associated with drug racketeering manage to work their way into new estates, of which there are many in the eastern region. All that is required is to bypass the vetting system, get in there, get a distributor in there and very soon the whole area is polluted with the nuisance.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Drug Dealing (20 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...expressed by the Minister and the last speaker. I congratulate An Garda Síochána for its successes in this area. However, for every success, there is growing evidence of an extension of the drugs empire all over the place. It is the drugs empire that is feeding its own market in a way that ensures it has a steady income from that area. It has established fear among the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (13 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 150. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts that are being made to meet the challenges of rare diseases, early diagnosis; the requirement for rare/orphan disease drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25882/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 308. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of rare and orphan drugs currently being evaluated for use in Ireland; the length of time that is normally required for this process; the drugs that have taken an inordinate amount of time to evaluate and approve for use here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20143/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gangland Crime (23 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 468. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which tackling gangland drug activity continues to be a priority item, with specific intentions with particular reference to our capital city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18058/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...is very hard to treat it. We did manage to find a treatment in the form of a vaccine for Covid but there seems to be no way of preventing long or chronic Covid. What is happening with regard to drugs? Are efforts being made to identify specific drugs for treating long Covid? If they are being used, what is the response? What is the situation regarding long Covid throughout the EU?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...in terms of a spillover or financial crash, which would have to be provided for like everything else. What do the delegates think about that? I will return to the issue of the availability of drugs in a second. It has been dealt with but it is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: On the availability of appropriate drugs and new drugs to fight particular cancers as they are diagnosed, Professor Kennedy made reference to a ten-year waiting time for actual results. When the action is put in place, it may take ten years to become obvious. What action might be taken on the availability of the drugs, given that we live in the Single Market? We are entitled to the same...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The difficulty in accessing new cancer-treating drugs in this country from time to time has already been raised this morning in this House and in other locations. It was already mentioned by Deputy Doherty in the House. Will the Tánaiste use his good offices with the European Commission to ensure the attributes of the Single Market are made available, which they are entitled to be, in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 324. To ask the Minister for Health the current or proposed regime governing new or orphan drugs, the number of such drugs under review or examination at the moment; the number to be approved in the course of the next year; the extent to which reimbursement will be in line with demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9924/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gangland Crime (22 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 214. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which membership of criminal gangs or those associated with drug crimes has decreased or increased in each of the past five years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8594/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: What steps are being taken, if any, to increase the level of support that might be available by way of new age drugs and so on? Testing drugs at European level and at our own level as well is a slow process. We tend very often to test drugs all over again with resultant delays. Why that exists, I do not know. What can and should be done now in the short term to, as it were, help...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...be run that way. Staff cannot be expected to put up with that kind of nonsense. First, it is a distraction and, second, it is intimidating. If there are people who are out of their minds with drugs, drink or whatever it is, they should by all means be attended to, but it should not happen in the same accident and emergency department. There should be a different place down the corridor...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medicinal Products (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 10. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which new modern, effective and safe drugs can become available here once approved by the EU authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1817/24]