Results 1-20 of 81 for drugs speaker:Seán Fleming

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (5 Mar 2024)

Seán Fleming: ...against all but essential travel. The Department recommends a high degree of caution for travel to Egypt. Under the EU health response, partners have been delivering critical medical supplies, drugs, and medications across Gaza. These partners continue to deliver health services including support to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) for lifesaving services. The Humanitarian...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (9 Nov 2023)

Seán Fleming: ...and there is not a pharmacy, region or family with many prescriptions that has not encountered it. The 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. Under that Act, the company that holds the marketing authorisation must apply to the HSE to add its...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (9 Nov 2023)

Seán Fleming: ...drafted by clinical experts and approved by the Minister. It would only be used when other existing measures are likely to be ineffective and in certain defined serious shortages. The community drugs schemes are designed to address the financial barriers, which the Senator mentioned. The State is committed to enabling safe access to medicines for as many people as possible. This...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Pharmacy Services (20 Jun 2023)

Seán Fleming: ...be reviewed every three years and it is to be hoped those negotiations are progressing well at this stage. Since then, the overall spend on fees paid to community pharmacists under the community drugs scheme, has continued to rise year on year. The HSE's primary care reimbursement service online system shows fees paid to pharmacies under the scheme ranged from €420 million in 2019...

EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Motion (8 Dec 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...does not stop at our borders and it is important that we have these measures in place right across the EU and with the assistance of the UK. The Deputy also mentioned the citizens' assembly on drug use and the fact that citizens' rights must be protected in all of these measures as well. I concur with him on that. To a great extent, in the first instance the drugs issue is a health...

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Seán Fleming: I thank Deputies for their contributions to this debate on drugs policy and acknowledge their interest in and commitment to the issue. In particular, I thank the Labour Party for providing time for the debate. The Government is fully committed to a health-led approach to the drugs issue and believes that people with problematic drug and alcohol use issues should be treated with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Reliefs (29 Jun 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...services of a practitioner; diagnostic procedures; maintenance or treatment necessarily incurred in connection with the services or procedures carried out by or on the advice of a practitioner; and drugs or medicines supplied on the prescription of a practitioner. I am pleased to state that coeliac patients may claim income tax relief in respect of the cost of foods that have been...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fiscal Policy (16 Jun 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...transport. Then we had the additional €125 fuel allowance increase. That is also for working families in particular, as people with the medical card would have been exempt from the cost of the drug payment scheme, which has reduced from €120 a month to €100 a month and it is now on its way down to €80 a month. That is €40 a month that many households...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (4 May 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...welfare packages introduced on that day cost €1.07 billion. The energy credit of €200 inclusive of VAT, the 20% reduction in public transport fees and the €125 lump sum on the heat fuel supplement allowance cost €505 million in total. On 10 February, the drug payment scheme threshold was reduced to €80. Only a little earlier, it was well over...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inflation Rate (28 Apr 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...participants. People who have a free travel card have the benefit of that. A 20% reduction in many public transport fares will come in at the end of this month. The maximum amount that people who avail of the drugs payment scheme must pay has reduced from €144 per month to €80 per month, which is affecting 70,000 families.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Inflation Rate (28 Apr 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...travel passes. Those who have to pay for public transport will benefit from the 20% reduction in the cost of fares. Any people who do not have a medical card will benefit from reduced costs under the drugs payment scheme in terms of what they must pay the pharmacy. The working family payment budget increase has recently been brought forward from 1 June to 1 April. That was a budget day...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...the Deputy for his reference to the note I circulated before I spoke, which deals with the HSE having sufficient scope from the legislation to consider the unique circumstances surrounding orphan drugs, such as small patient numbers. The evidence suggests these expensive orphan drugs are getting reimbursed even, in many cases, when they far exceed the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (31 Mar 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...particular interest and knowledge. As he noted, having met people face-to-face, he understands the issue. It is important that the views of those who have first-hand experience of the need for orphan drugs are adequately reflected in Dáil Éireann. All of us in this House fully appreciate how devastating a diagnosis of a rare disease can be for patients, families, and...

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...fares of 20 per cent from the end of April to the end of the year, and this will impact approximately 800,000 daily users of Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann, Dublin Bus, Go Ahead, Luas, Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) and Local Link services; — a reduction of the Drugs Payment Scheme from €144 to €80 will benefit just over 70,000 families; — the...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Seán Fleming: ...x20ac;1,500 and an increase also in the personal tax credit of €50. On health, we are very pleased to announce that there will be free GP care for children aged six and seven. The threshold for the drugs payment scheme is being lowered to €100. Some €250 million is being provided to tackle hospital waiting lists. Free contraception for women aged 17 to 25 is being...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: Then there is a breakdown of a figure for primary care reimbursement services. That is broken down by prescription charges, manufacturers’ rebate and pharmacy claims. There is a breakdown of the drugs payment scheme, the long-term illness scheme. It is all outlined on page 19 and is useful information for people to have. Then we asked for a note on the whole-time equivalent staff...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: .... Next is No. 2337 from the EPA office, dated 15 July, providing further information requested by the committee in respect of water testing for bathing water and testing for illicit and-or legal drugs. Members can read that. We will note that. No. 2338 from Mr. Derek Finnegan, parliamentary affairs, Department of Health, provides information requested by the committee on the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...Protection Agency, providing further information requested by the committee on the availability of data for water testing. The EPA advises that Irish drinking water is at low risk of containing illicit and legal drugs because the majority of wastewater discharges in Ireland occur in estuaries which discharge into the sea and are, therefore, downstream of drinking water abstraction points....

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: We just want an overall picture, not all the details. In the appropriation account for the Department of Health, the primary care reimbursement service comes to €2.7 billion. Is that the drug refund scheme?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: How much of that is for drugs and how much for the pharmacists?