Results 1-20 of 21 for drugs speaker:Marian Harkin

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Marian Harkin: ..., Deputy Stephen Donnelly, explain that many of the cost overruns in the health service were caused by the fact doctors are treating more patients than allocated or expected. He spoke about the higher cost of drugs. If that is the case, surely he and the Minister for Finance knew we faced this deficit. According to the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, it is not a question of waste but of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: 172. To ask the Minister for Health to release the number of cariban prescriptions that have been processed through the drugs payment scheme for the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [7564/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Feb 2023)

Marian Harkin: 171. To ask the Minister for Health what is the process in writing by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain the drug cariban (details supplied). [7563/23]

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Marian Harkin: ...their work matters. There are so many services on which so many people rely right throughout the country, in rural and urban areas, towns, villages and inner cities - in family resource centres, drugs services, Tús, RSS and CE schemes, youth services, LEADER companies, services for children, adults, older people and education services. It is a very long list. I have only...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: ...but her addiction started as a response to the need for pain medication due to undiagnosed endometriosis. In order to try to deal with her pain, she started taking over-the-counter opioid medication. As her sister said, the drugs she was addicted to are legal and easy to obtain. She said that she was buying them from chemists throughout the county and further afield. Recently, she...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Family Resource Centres (3 Dec 2021)

Marian Harkin: ...dispersed and because of that it is less visible. However, we still have many families on low incomes, an ageing population and small farm holdings. We also have the same pattern of alcohol and drug misuse, abuse and addiction as everywhere else in the country. The families in the very significant part of County Leitrim that I have referred to need these services. I ask the Minister,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Jul 2021)

Marian Harkin: 382. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline in which the drug zolgensma will be approved by the HSE for children under the age of two who have been diagnosed with the rare genetic disease spinal muscular atrophy type 1 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31248/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2021)

Marian Harkin: The Taoiseach’s party made a general election promise to hold an independent inquiry into the historical use of sodium valproate, or Epilim, which, as the Taoiseach knows, is a drug used to treat epilepsy. Many children have suffered devastating neurological disabilities because their mothers were taking this drug. The Taoiseach promised to do this. I asked the Minister one year ago...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (31 Mar 2021)

Marian Harkin: 1083. To ask the Minister for Health if certain drugs can be paid for at source, either under the compassionate access programme or under an individual licensing system; if medicinal cannabis products of a company (details supplied) can be funded at source under the compassionate access programme; and if not, if the products can be funded at source using an individual licensing system, if the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (17 Feb 2021)

Marian Harkin: 797. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Ozempic insulin pen is not covered under the drugs repayment scheme; if he will consider including this medication on the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8414/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (17 Feb 2021)

Marian Harkin: 798. To ask the Minister for Health if a device (details supplied) will be included for reimbursement under the drugs repayment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8415/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Dec 2020)

Marian Harkin: 573. To ask the Minister for Health the full details of the decision made by the HSE drugs group to support reimbursement of dupilumab for the treatment of moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis in both adults and adolescents of 12 years of age and older who are candidates for systemic therapy which was on the group’s agenda for its December 2020 meeting; and if he will make a statement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Response to Covid-19: Discussion (28 Oct 2020)

Marian Harkin: ...services. The EU qualifications directive is, again, an important piece of legislation upon which we could build. Horizon 2020 and the European reference frameworks for rare diseases and orphan drugs are other examples. There is quite a lot on which we can build. We can use certain treaty articles, particularly around free movement, that would allow us to expand our competences in this...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Drugs Payment Scheme (23 Oct 2020)

Marian Harkin: ...very clear from my question and from what I have said that this is what the family are waiting for. This is a 26-month process. The Minister of State has quite rightly pointed out that it was the drugs group that made a positive recommendation last February. What has been the hold-up since then, especially since the Minister made all of this extra money available for new drugs and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Drugs Payment Scheme (23 Oct 2020)

Marian Harkin: ...medicines but we lag behind when it comes to making those medicines available to people living here. This medicine has taken 26 months to go through the reimbursement approval process. The HSE's drugs group approved it for reimbursement in February but, eight months later, we are still waiting for it to be sanctioned. There was a big announcement in the budget of an allocation of...

Written Answers — Community Drugs Schemes: Community Drugs Schemes (27 Feb 2007)

Marian Harkin: Question 301: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her plans to restore the right of pharmacists to be able to engage in collective bargaining on fees for the delivery of the community drugs schemes on behalf of the State; if the same legal advice will apply to the negotiation of fees with other contractors, such as general practitioners, dentists and optometrists; and if she will...

Written Answers — Health Service Information and Quality: Health Service Information and Quality (31 Jan 2007)

Marian Harkin: ...of new treatment and technologies and insuring the best outcome for resources available to the Health Service Executive; if this could involve the authority limiting access by patients to expensive drugs or technologies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1988/07]

Drug Abuse: Motion. (23 May 2006)

Marian Harkin: The scourge of drug-taking and trafficking is one of the major concerns of Irish people. It is also a real threat to the security and health of the nation. The use of drugs, particularly by young people, is at historically high levels. At one time those of us who live in rural Ireland might have considered the drugs problem to be an urban one. If that was ever true it is no longer so. Drugs...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (16 May 2006)

Marian Harkin: Question 307: To ask the Minister for Transport his proposals on introducing mandatory testing for alcohol or drugs at the scene of a road traffic accident; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17926/06]

Human Rights Issues: Motion. (24 Mar 2005)

Marian Harkin: ...and the ZANU-PF youth. Youth training camps have been set up to indoctrinate large numbers of young people. Many people are brutalised in these camps and there are reports of the use of rape and drugs. In violent situations women often hold families, communities and neighbourhoods together. By increasing the levels of violence against women, the government does not just threaten individual...