Results 1-20 of 48 for drugs speaker:Cathal Crowe

Tackling All Forms of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: ...the Garda National Vetting Bureau, but we know very little about what happens there. We have been told anecdotally that the most important issue the bureau looks at is whether the housing applicant has a history of drug dealing because, naturally, we do not want to land a drug dealer in the middle of a housing estate and have a potential contagion effect, with more people forming a drug...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I raise the issue of the supply of the drug Ozempic. Someone called into one of my advice clinics this week. She has been prescribed Ozempic by her GP and had gone to many pharmacists in County Clare and beyond trying to get this all-important medicine. When she went into one pharmacy, the pharmacist looked her up and down and asked her if she had diabetes or was obese. He asked this...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: .... She said she was brought into an acute environment where the walls were padded. It was more like an exclusion zone in a prison. The people in her unit were largely people coming down from drug-induced psychosis. There is a woman in room one who has given birth and has postpartum psychosis, and in rooms three, four and five, there are people with post-drug-taking psychosis. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: ...who is not wearing a helmet. The reality is that in some cases, it is children on scrambler bikes messing around on green open spaces but very often, as gardaí will attest, these bikes are being used as drug mules. They are drug mules, effectively. Those on the bikes know that if they are not wearing a helmet, gardaí will not chase them. They can bring drugs down along...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: ...and Ms Hilman to Deputy Kenny. They were very much going down the avenue of discretion. In the context of a situation where a person is pulled over on suspicion of being under the influence of drugs, the witnesses started to elaborate on how gardaí have discretion. To build on a point from earlier, it is essential for the force that there be a full definition of what this involves...

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

Cathal Crowe: ...women who have just given birth can be reintegrated with the baby, have access to the baby and have family access without being, in this case, in a room next door to somebody who is coming off high-drug dependency. They are at totally different ends of the spectrum of mental health needs. This woman's point, which I reiterate because the poor woman is in the heavens these days, is there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: ...- once - I had to make a 999 call from the train because of the actions of another passenger. Occasionally, you see someone losing the rag or someone who is possibly under the influence of drugs, but it is tricky to go down to the bathroom or to the other end of the carriage to make a call. It would be great if there was a text facility to be able to text - there is a new name for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...against the traffic on one-way streets, driving across green areas and so on. More alarmingly, the drivers of these scramblers are not wearing helmets but are wearing balaclavas. They are doing drug runs. They are drug mules. The wearing of a balaclava is very intentional because the wearer cannot be identified but not wearing a helmet is even more intentional because An Garda...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...that resourcing a fifth unit is no longer operationally feasible and would result in a significant reduction in service delivery in many areas such as domestic abuse investigation, and that divisional drug units would be depleted and this would lead to a reduction in numbers in the national bureaus. These were his words. Nothing has changed since November 2022 apart from the fact that...

Youth Justice Strategy: Statements (21 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...is being looked after. The Tusla thresholds are questionable and need to be reviewed by Government. There are many elements to this. Deputy Gino Kenny was correct to mention the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use. It would be a blind approach to have youth strategies and have Fagin’s law before the Dáil two weeks ago, but not to have feed-in from the citizens' assembly. It is...

Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...xd3; Ríordáin. I absolutely agree that the Citizens' Assembly needs to lead to actions. We all engage very extensively in communities in our constituencies and note that the wrath and ravaging of drugs are very evident and on the increase. The profile of youngsters who develop a drug habit and become welded to it has definitely changed at constituency level in so far as I can...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 357. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update following talks (details supplied) in relation to the kaftrio drug for cystic fibrosis. [14491/23]

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ..., their application goes to the Garda vetting unit. Over a six- or seven-week period, the officers in the unit check out who people are and what their background is. Generally, it is understood that this is to ascertain whether they are from a drug-dealing background because, obviously and naturally, nobody wants a drug dealer going in a social housing development and allowing it to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...Works had undertaken a lot of work along the riverbank and the Minister of State came in to visit the historic structures there. Essentially, the abbey is being vandalised quite a lot. Plenty of drug paraphernalia can be seen there following weekends and a number of beautiful gravestones have been smashed to pieces. The ask, very simply, was that CCTV cameras be installed. I know it is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 1444. To ask the Minister for Health the reasoning behind the decision to fund the Hyperemesis gravidarum drug cariban for three months of pregnancy only; if there are plans to extend for the duration of pregnancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1290/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 1448. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the status of plans to reimburse pregnant people for the costs of the Hyperemesis Gravidarum drug Cariban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1297/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Finally, is there any good news on the Kaftrio drug for these 35 children?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: .... To ask the Minister for Health the engagement that he has had with his Department and HSE officials regarding the use of innovative payment models between industry and the State in respect of the drug reimbursement process for rare disease therapies; if he will examine such innovative solutions to ensure greater access; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39085/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...a product is experimental; the criteria this decision maker uses to decide such and the definitions applied to experimental treatment; if the relevant decision makers have the expertise to review drugs for complex conditions; if the existing reimbursement list is referred to in making reimbursement decisions or whether EMA approval is deemed to be the over-riding proof of clinical safety;...