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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: ...capitalise on the organisations that are established in Europe and are under the umbrella of the EU. If we were a party to this programme, an amount of information would flow our way with respect to drug interdiction, defence, etc. We would have access to all that information. We really need to get on top of this issue. I note the motion on the Order Paper today concerning the Seanad...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Mar 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: Healthcare Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: A Ministerial Licence issued pursuant to Section 14 for the Misuse of Drugs entitles the clinician licencee to prescribe, import, supply , possess and administer a cannabis-based product containing Tetrahydrocannabinol. The decision on what to prescribe is a clinical decision in which neither the Minister for Health nor the Department of Health has a role. As the products are Schedule...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Mar 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: While Naloxone is a prescription required drug various measures have been put in place to ensure that as many people as are required have access to naloxone administration courses. Currently the supply and administration of medicinal products in emergencies is done by persons engaged or employed by organisatons listed with the Health Products Regulatory Authority. The person supplying and...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Jack Chambers: ...or in the vicinity of the checkpoint concerned (for a period that does not exceed 30 minutes after the provision of the specimen) until the apparatus referred to in subsection (4)(b) indicates the presence or absence of drugs in the specimen.”, (b) in subsection (5), by the substitution of “(4) or (4A)” for “(4)”, and (c) in subsection (6)(a), by the...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Daichead ar an mBunreacht (An Comhaontú maidir le Cúirt Aontaithe um Paitinní), 2024: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Neale Richmond: ...course one reason for the delay was the UK's decision to withdraw from the European Union and, therefore, withdraw from the formulation of this court. As it stands, if a piece of technology or a drug is developed with cross-Border co-operation, it is registered for a patent in the jurisdiction where it is registered. The patent can be registered, if it is in Northern Ireland, with the...

Rare Diseases: Statements (6 Mar 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Denis Naughten: I echo the comments by colleagues on access to drugs, expansion of the heel prick test and the implementation plan for rare diseases. It is one thing having a plan but having it implemented is something different. The surprising thing about rare diseases is that despite their name, they are collectively quite common, affecting at least one in 17 people in Ireland, equating to approximately...

Committee Establishment: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: That, in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform pursuant to Standing Order 118A(2)(b), a Special Committee on Drugs Use is hereby established, with Orders of Reference as contained in the report of the Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform entitled "Orders of Reference for Special Committee on Drugs Use", a copy of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...will be keeping it monitored. Regarding nitrous oxide, for the first time I have allocated €1.5 million for education and evidence-based prevention measures. They will raise awareness around drugs and alcohol addiction. This part of the response in relation to nitrous oxide. I completely support An Garda Síochána in relation to this. This is about education and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...overstated. There has been an increase in demand for mental health services driven by the pandemic's exacerbation of mental health issues. One example is the increased prevalence of antipsychotic drug prescribing, which points to a deterioration in mental well-being particularly among younger and older people. We need an action plan which not only acknowledges the challenges post Covid...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Educational Disadvantage (6 Mar 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...a specific additional need, but the school needs a multidisciplinary team. The school is in a challenging area with lots of complex issues, such as the scourge of addiction, be that to alcohol, drugs or gambling. It has already invested its own resources into private assessments for some of the kids, which it should not have to do. I wish to acknowledge and highlight the work the school...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (5 Mar 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Mary Butler: ...medicines last year, which is a new record. This is in the context of a total health budget of €22.5 billion, which is another record. At the same time, however, it is a person who needs that orphan drug, for example, and it will make a difference to that person's life. The Deputy said that in August 2023, the NCPE completed a rapid review of Vutrisiran, the factors of which are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (5 Mar 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: ...beyond Rebecca's mother. Seven months on from being discharged from CAMHS, she got her first appointment with the adult mental health services, but they are not in a position to prescribe her the drugs she had been receiving under CAMHS. Now, those drugs are being prescribed by her GP who is not a specialist in the area but is trying to help. It seems as if the mental health supports...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (5 Mar 2024)

...discuss the need to recognise foetal alcohol spectrum disorder as a disability in Ireland. Deputy Joe Flaherty - To discuss the decision by National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics to direct that the drug vutrisiran, Amvuttra, should not be considered for reimbursement by the HSE. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - To discuss the need for a school bus for the Douglas area in Cork City....

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...lately, her sister, Carrie Acheson, the former TD who died just over a year ago, and people like that. There is also Sister Eileen Fahey, who set up Aiséirí in Cahir, a wonderful alcohol and drug treatment centre, and Sister Veronica Mangan, who I was privileged to serve with in setting up the Aislinn project in Ballyragget in Kilkenny, which Deputy McGuinness would know well,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Paul McAuliffe: ...pursue without continuously saying "Yes" to pharma companies, and not resorting to patients having to advocate in the way that we do. We have to have a more humane version of the HTA process. The drugs that are put through that process have to be more available to patients while, at the same time, we seek to secure the best value for money for the taxpayer.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Paul McAuliffe: ...that the Government would continue to do that for gardaí to allow them to deliver further results. I also note the concerns where gardaí say that these bikes are being used in the sale of illegal drugs, and that not only are scramblers being used but also e-scooters, often by very young children. I thank the Taoiseach for his personal support with regard to the changes on...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...carried out on behalf of third countries and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937 (without debate) - Motion re Report of the Committee on Standing Orders and Dáil Reform entitled "Orders of Reference for Special Committee on Drugs Use" (without debate) - Motion re Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions (without debate) - Ráitis maidir leis an nGaeilge chun Seachtain na...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2024)

Noel Grealish: .... In the past decade, this country has seen a doubling in the incidents of some crimes committed by people out on bail, including attempts and threats of murder and assaults, drunk driving and drug offences. We have also suffered substantial increases in public order offences, which are up by 75%. Theft is up by 72%, damage to property is up by 53%, and burglary is up by 50% by...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2024)

James Browne: ...at an early stage in the grooming of children into crime. For the first time, we are making it an offence for an adult to involve a child in crime, whether that means using children to run drugs for a gang or getting them into shoplifting or stealing cars and bikes. The Garda will now be able to go after the adults who control these crimes. Members of the Garda will no longer be forced...