Results 1-20 of 248 for drugs speaker:Brendan Howlin

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (10 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 49. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence following the successful operation of the Joint Task Force in interdicting a huge drugs consignment off the Irish coast, and acknowledging the importance of having members of An Garda Síochána and the Revenue Commissioners on secondment to the Maritime Operations Centre in Lisbon, if it is intended that an Irish naval officer would...

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

Brendan Howlin: ...motion is shine a light on an issue that impacts on all communities in our country, including every village, town, city and rural area. Everyone in this House knows that. We know we have a massive issue with drug abuse, drug-related illnesses and drug-related deaths. We also know there is unimaginable hurt and pain being felt by families in all our constituencies every day and Deputy...

European Council Decision: Motion (Resumed) (29 Jun 2022)

Brendan Howlin: ...our land. That is why the adding of violation of EU sanctions to the list of EU crimes that includes terrorism, trafficking in human beings and sexual exploitation of women and children, illicit drug and arms trafficking, money laundering, corruption, counterfeiting, computer crime, organised crime, hate crime and hate speech, is a positive and important measure. I will use the very...

Prüm II Proposal: Motion (26 Apr 2022)

Brendan Howlin: ...;na for the spectacular success of last week. The efforts made by the Garda in persuading international law enforcement agencies, especially the United States Department of Justice and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, to take decisive cross-national action against the Kinahan criminal organisation. This is an extremely important success that underscores the Garda's...

European Arrest Warrant (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Brendan Howlin: ...innovation, which began to match the pan-European law enforcement capacity with the growing pan-European and transglobal nature of crime. Some colleagues have already referred to that in terms of drugs and other areas of criminality. Like all EU directives, the EU Commission maintains a proper watching brief on the precise nature of each member state's transposition process and...

Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Brendan Howlin: ...endless discussion and the reality of loss of personnel and gross under-staffing remains. That poses a real threat to the security of the State, our capacity to intercept illegal cargoes including drugs and our capacity to carry out our legal commitments to fulfil our undertakings to our EU partners to protect our fishing waters and our fishing resources. It also impacts on our capacity...

Community Safety and Preventing Crime: Statements (18 Nov 2020)

Brendan Howlin: ...to do that. One of the things we need to do is to have effective policing specialties across the State and to have adequate resourcing for them. Like others, I want to deal with the menace of drugs, which is devastating communities. It is not only devastating urban communities but rural communities as well. There is not a community or a village in Ireland that is free from the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (22 Oct 2020)

Brendan Howlin: 179. To ask the Minister for Health when the reduction in the drugs payment scheme to €114, as announced in budget 2020, will be applied in view that it was to be applied from 01 September 2020 and which has not taken place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32141/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (29 Sep 2020)

Brendan Howlin: 761. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include the acid reducer drug Major Famotidine on the list of drugs covered under the general medical scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26275/20]

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (22 Sep 2020)

Brendan Howlin: ...offshore. It travelled all over the world and was put into various mechanisms and financial vehicles. It continues now from a variety of international sources, from criminal sources in the drugs trade and terrorist sources. We must apply ourselves to ensuring that we are as agile as legislators and law enforcers as is the criminal community. I welcome this Bill. It is technical,...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (17 Jun 2020)

Brendan Howlin: ...property on it. I had hoped the Minister would confirm that was also his view. Deputy James Browne asked about dexamethasone. It was not quite clear from the Minister's response whether that drug is in use in Ireland now, as it is in the NHS for critically ill patients, a diminishing number of whom - thankfully - are now in intensive care.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee at which policy discussions on drug gangs take place; and when it last met. [52728/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: ...them money. Alongside the murders, there has been a succession of attempted murders as well as well-documented evidence of intimidation and severe violence carried out by criminals involved in drug selling. There have been other high-profile murders in other parts of the city and in Meath and Louth. Seven killings in one year is an extraordinary level of violence on the northside of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Community Enhancement Programme (26 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: ...the comments by a range of Deputies during questions on the Order of Business, it is clear that the Government has failed to address the causes of crime. When one looks at the areas of crime and drug abuse not just in Dublin's inner city but across the country, there is a familiar pattern of economic and social disadvantage in the areas that are suffering the greatest problems. There is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: ...;ochána and the Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP, are developing a system that will allow for the application of an adult caution, rather than a criminal prosecution, for people in possession of drugs for their own use. Apparently this is a recommendation in a Government working group report but this report has not been published and has not been presented to, let alone approved...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (26 Feb 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 332. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding that will be made available to drug task forces and community drugs projects in 2019, by project; if an emerging needs fund will be established; the additional funding available in 2019 for same; the additional funding made available to implement the national drugs strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9249/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...has been much recent controversy about the Church of Scientology and its expansion plans, particularly a Narconon centre in Ballivor in County Meath, which is apparently to be a rehabilitation and drug treatment centre. I understand that while planning permission is needed, there is no regulation or inspection of residential treatments for rehabilitation. Is this a matter that the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...requirement for equal treatment be vindicated. Will the Taoiseach tell the House today that he will sit down with the Minister, Deputy Harris, to instruct the HSE to begin to negotiate with the drug company mentioned to ensure that all women who suffer from cervical cancer and whose clinicians determine that Pembrolizumab would be of benefit to them will have that drug made available to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The cancer treatment drug pembrolizumab, Pembro, has received much public attention because of the Government's decision to make it available to survivors of the CervicalCheck scandal, the 221 group, people like Vicky Phelan. Vicky Phelan has spoken publicly about how pembrolizumab has had a significant effect onher tumours and has given her a much better quality of life. The drug has been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (20 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: 466. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 15 recommendations of the 2012 Report on the Review of Drugs Task Forces and the National Structures Under Which They Operate that have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48292/18]