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Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...we as politicians, who enforce the law of the land, and those involved in different State agencies are doing enough to try to protect vulnerable people, whether it is those caught up with alcohol or drug abuse, or children. We hear of awful cases where parents have subjected their children to abuse for profit. We read about such cases in local newspapers, where mums and dads have...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 May 2024)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...was made with Kildare County Council that it would be for people aged over 55 and for people with disabilities. There are very unfortunate rumours and people are peddling stories that it is for drug addicts and people with mental health issues. People are going up to the school which is beside the convent and giving out utter rubbish in terms of information. I want to call this out in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: What plans are there to deal with violence? I am talking about both organised violence, that is, drug dealing, drug-debt intimidation and the wholesale violence that communities have to deal with and disorganised violence. That can be the crime of chaotic families, vulnerable people who are sometimes, for want of a better term, useful idiots who are used by drug gangs. Such chaotic...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Boylan: ...at the news coming out of Brussels with regard to the negotiations that the Government is siding with countries that want to reduce the regulation to allow non-vets to administer the euthanasia drug pentobarbital. This is concerning. We are a small country and we cannot use the excuse of remote facilities. It is also concerning given our history. We have seen this drug abused in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (30 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...the work of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications to develop a scale of fees for JR applicants as a first/pilot step in developing generalisable options. Support the Drug Related Intimidation Reporting Programme, developed by the National Family Support Network, in partnership with An Garda Síochána, to respond to the needs of drug users...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour (30 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...and covert operations are carried out on an ongoing basis to support public safety in Limerick. I am informed that Operation Croi has been in place in Limerick city centre for the past 15 months, targeting anti-social behaviour and associated offences, including drug-related and traffic-related offences. This Garda Operation assists in targeting recidivist crime and the sale and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (30 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...-profit, social enterprise or similar with a remit relevant to community safety and/or youth justice. There have been two successful projects funded in Dublin 9 and Dublin 11 to date. In 2022, the Ballymun Local Drugs Task Force received €120,000 for the ‘Base Bus’ project. It aims to redefine places of anti-social behaviour into more positive social...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...operations carried out in partnership with other state agencies, in order to make our roads safer for all. On average 25% of roads policing enforcement is carried out by regular members, with the exception of drug/drink driving checks, 75% of which are carried out by regular members. The Garda Commissioner has recently confirmed that all uniform Gardaí will undertake 30...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (30 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...card. It is intended that the enhanced medical card will ensure the provision, without charge, of the following primary and community health services for those eligible: GP services; prescribed drugs, medicines, aids and appliances dental, ophthalmic and aural services; home nursing; home support; counselling; chiropody/podiatry; and physiotherapy. As well as the above services,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (30 Apr 2024)

Mark Ward: 611. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on Ireland's drug policy following the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs; the next steps following the recommendations from the Citizens' Assembly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19307/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (30 Apr 2024) See 6 other results from this answer

Stephen Donnelly: The receipt and processing of applications from clinicians to the Minister for Health for a licence issued pursuant to Section 14 of the Misuse of Drugs Act to treat a patient with cannabis-based products is solely a matter for the Department of Health.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...policy, legislation and investment to deliver expanded eligibility. In 2022, a range of measures were delivered including the abolition of public in-patient charges for children, reductions in the Drug Payment Scheme threshold to €80 per month, and the introduction of free contraception for women aged 17-25. In 2023, further measures have facilitated better access to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 734 and 741 together. Under the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013, the HSE has statutory responsibility for the administration of the community drug schemes; therefore, the matter has been referred to the HSE for attention and direct reply to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (25 Apr 2024)

Mary Butler: ...activities, transport and individual items and services such as specialised laundry, newspapers and hairdressing. 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. In determining the services covered by the NHSS it was considered very important that the care...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (25 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The Health Service Executive (HSE) has statutory responsibility for pricing and reimbursement decisions under the community drug schemes, in accordance with the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013. The HSE advise that the following pain relief patches are currently available on the reimbursement list: Durogesic DTrans Transdermal patches Fental Matrix Transdermal patches...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

..., as we have discussed already. We do not have urban municipal districts as we do rural councils. This is a big disadvantage. There are SPCs, PPNs, LCDC, partnerships, LEADER programmes, local policing forums, drug task forces, Part 8, public consultation structures, ETBs, health forums and regional assemblies. In theory there are quite a lot of opportunities for people to engage....

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...on individuals and Irish society. When talking to Mark, he really impressed on me the fact that if you are an alcoholic, you do not really think that your next drink is going to solve your problems; if you have a drug addiction, you do not really think that your next hit is going to solve your problems; but if you are a gambler, you really do think that your next bet is going to solve all...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Frank Feighan: ...and leading to mental pressures. The Minister of State, Deputy Heydon, will remember that when I was a Minister of State in the Department of Health with responsibility for the national drugs strategy, health and well-being, we launched the On Feirm Ground scheme which presented a genuine opportunity to equip farm advisers with a toolkit of supports related to physical and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Mal O'Hara: ...In my inauguration speech, I said that I wish to be a Senator for all and that I want to amplify voices in the North. The voices I will talk about today are those of people who have experienced drug deaths and of their families. Yesterday, the Northern Ireland Assembly debated a motion on drug deaths, but it was poor and vacuous and did not address the root cause of the issues or use...

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Seery Kearney: ...is welcome. I thank the Minister for taking the time to attend. I appreciate that she is very busy at the moment so she is very good to come here. As long ago as 2010, the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Use published an article that said smartphone use and social media platforms - platforms, apps and games - were designed to be addictive, which is what is addressed in this...