Results 1-20 of 614 for drugs speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gangland Crime (23 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 468. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which tackling gangland drug activity continues to be a priority item, with specific intentions with particular reference to our capital city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18058/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...is very hard to treat it. We did manage to find a treatment in the form of a vaccine for Covid but there seems to be no way of preventing long or chronic Covid. What is happening with regard to drugs? Are efforts being made to identify specific drugs for treating long Covid? If they are being used, what is the response? What is the situation regarding long Covid throughout the EU?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...in terms of a spillover or financial crash, which would have to be provided for like everything else. What do the delegates think about that? I will return to the issue of the availability of drugs in a second. It has been dealt with but it is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: On the availability of appropriate drugs and new drugs to fight particular cancers as they are diagnosed, Professor Kennedy made reference to a ten-year waiting time for actual results. When the action is put in place, it may take ten years to become obvious. What action might be taken on the availability of the drugs, given that we live in the Single Market? We are entitled to the same...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Mar 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The difficulty in accessing new cancer-treating drugs in this country from time to time has already been raised this morning in this House and in other locations. It was already mentioned by Deputy Doherty in the House. Will the Tánaiste use his good offices with the European Commission to ensure the attributes of the Single Market are made available, which they are entitled to be, in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 324. To ask the Minister for Health the current or proposed regime governing new or orphan drugs, the number of such drugs under review or examination at the moment; the number to be approved in the course of the next year; the extent to which reimbursement will be in line with demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9924/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gangland Crime (22 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 214. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which membership of criminal gangs or those associated with drug crimes has decreased or increased in each of the past five years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8594/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Bernard Durkan: What steps are being taken, if any, to increase the level of support that might be available by way of new age drugs and so on? Testing drugs at European level and at our own level as well is a slow process. We tend very often to test drugs all over again with resultant delays. Why that exists, I do not know. What can and should be done now in the short term to, as it were, help...

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

Bernard Durkan: ...be run that way. Staff cannot be expected to put up with that kind of nonsense. First, it is a distraction and, second, it is intimidating. If there are people who are out of their minds with drugs, drink or whatever it is, they should by all means be attended to, but it should not happen in the same accident and emergency department. There should be a different place down the corridor...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medicinal Products (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 10. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which new modern, effective and safe drugs can become available here once approved by the EU authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1817/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medicinal Products (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: This question seeks to ascertain the extent to which new, effective and safe drugs are made available for use by Irish patients as soon as they become approved at EU level.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medicinal Products (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for his reply. What is the extent to which references come from the pharmaceutical sector on the ready availability as soon as these drugs are made available? For instance, what might be the time lag between approval in the European Union and in this country? I accept that we are a smaller country but we are a member of the European Union. As a member of the Single...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...Patients and staff should not be targeted on an ongoing basis with that kind of behaviour. The people causing that trouble, as I have said before, should be dealt with somewhere else - maybe in a drug or alcohol treatment centre. The problem is they are in the queue, and other people have to wait until they are processed in one way, shape or form. That is not an effective and efficient...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: Is it possible to identify the number and variety of drugs under investigation, as is usual, how many are generic, the particular conditions to which they are likely to apply, and how urgently that is issue being dealt with? I am talking about identifying the patient type and profile and accelerating the speed with which they can have access to the new drugs. The testing of drugs is...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: That is to give us a profile of how matters are progressing, what is waiting insofar as new drugs are concerned, the potential conditions to which they apply, and the impact they are likely to have on the health conditions of patients. A lot of work has been done on child and adolescent mental health, etc., and the Minister of State has done a huge amount of work in that area, which is...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Supplementary)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: .... What actions could be taken to focus on those sensitive areas with a view to bringing more pressure to bear? For example, I know there are proposals to liberalise, as I would see it, the drugs regime. Other people might say this is necessary. An argument will ensue that this should be based more on medical support than on policing. I do not agree with that. I believe it is an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Security and Defence Policy (21 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: The variety of potential threats, such as drug running - and our congratulations go to the Defence Forces on their tremendous success in recent times in this area - also underlines the necessity to prepare for an ongoing attack on incursion in that area, and that at all times it is now necessary to make preparations well in advance and to try to ensure our defence systems have the technology,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the extent to which the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps are continually upgraded in line with best practice given the need to respond to such issues as drug trafficking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51146/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (21 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 132. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of aircraft currently available to the Air Corps, those capable of countering sophisticated drug trafficking or other threats to the security of this or other European states; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51148/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...about how many of our emergency departments are grossly overcrowded, some with non-emergency requirements. That needs to be dealt with as well. Patients need to be segregated so that those who have a drug or alcohol problem get treatment but they go in one particular direction or another and are dealt with. Then there are patients who are there for another purpose, many of whom are in...