Results 1-20 of 141 for drugs speaker:Paul Kehoe

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 1136. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the PCRS will not cover the cost of the drug Fostimon, on the drug payment scheme as prescribed by a fertility clinic and in one case only covers the cost for six days; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47492/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (13 Jun 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 1150. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that some health insurance companies do not cover the drug, pembro; the way that a patient can avail of it if their health provider does not cover payment of the drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27410/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 305. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug cariban cannot be prescribed by a GP on the drugs payment scheme, given that the majority of women do not see a consultant until after 12 weeks; if this is the current standard practice in other EU member states; his Department’s recommendations, in the meantime, to help with the extreme nausea and vomiting for the first 12 weeks,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Feb 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 306. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cariban prescriptions that have been processed through the drugs payment scheme to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6384/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (8 Feb 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 405. To ask the Minister for Health if saxenda will be approved for persons with a medical card or under the drugs payment scheme for the purposes of GP-supported weight loss; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5809/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: .... There were 11 recommendations in that report. HRI, the IHRB, trainers and departmental officials were before the committee in summer 2021 because there were a number of media accusations around drug-taking in the racing industry, which could have damaged its good name. It was a very important piece of work that the committee did at the time. I have a couple of questions on that work....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: That is okay. There was another issue around the drug testing capacity at tracks. There were a number of recommendations on that. We were given a commitment by IHRB that it would provide the committee with quarterly updates, or we asked it to do so, regarding the installation of CCTV at all of its racetracks. I understood that would be fully rolled out sometime in 2022. Does the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I understood, at the time, most of the lab analysis of drug tests were carried out off the island of Ireland. Is any of it carried out on the island of Ireland at present? We have come on in leaps and bounds in lab analysis with regard to Covid. It beggars belief we are not able to carry out those tests on the island of Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Paul Kehoe: I will finish with a question I would like one of our guests to answer briefly. One of the biggest challenges for us as a society, and it is a major challenge, is drugs and substance misuse. I do not think we take it seriously enough from every side, whether it be justice or education on the effects it can have on mental health and mental illness. Do the witnesses see that as an increasing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: A prisoner might be completing the leaving certificate. What provisions are put in place for this? Someone in third level education could get a two- or three-year sentence, perhaps for drug offences. Students who leave home and go out into the wild can, all of a sudden, find themselves in prison for two or three years. They could have been halfway through first or second year in college....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Paul Kehoe: ...further this with other third level colleges. I know of examples in my constituency where people aged 19 or 20 go from living with their parents to being out. All of a sudden they get involved in drugs and a bad group and end up in prison. That could be for six months, 12 months, 18 months or two years. I believe those people will make progress and while they will serve the time, they...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (27 Jul 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 1520. To ask the Minister for Health if there is capacity to include medications that have been prescribed by a general practitioner or consultant for off licence use on the medical card or drug payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33859/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Jul 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 2705. To ask the Minister for Health if there is capacity to include medications that have been prescribed by a general practitioner or consultant for an off licence use on the medical card or drug payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38819/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Jul 2021)

Paul Kehoe: 414. To ask the Minister for Health when a drug will be approved for use; if an emergency use authorisation can be made for a time sensitive case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32818/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Paul Kehoe: Does the IRTA have zero tolerance towards prohibited drugs? Does it believe that the licence of a horse trainer should be removed forever if the trainer is caught with prohibited drugs? Is that necessary if we are to have very high standards in Irish horse racing? What are the views of Mr. Grassick on zero tolerance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (8 Jul 2021)

Paul Kehoe: ...the board's accounts. Why was the budget for the forensic equine unit cut by almost €500,000 between 2018 and 2019? Mr. Egan has repeatedly stated the IHRB increased its testing for prohibited drugs but the figures for this show this to not be true. Why did the racecourse samples decrease between 2017 and 2019? In 2017 there were 3,074, in 2018 3,034 and in 2019 3,004. I ask...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Alleged Issues in the Horse Racing Industry: Discussion (8 Jul 2021)

Paul Kehoe: ...for the IHRB to visit non-licensed yards, was it aware that some trainers - this information was given to me anonymously - were moving horses to non-licensed yards where they may have been getting drug treatment? Was the IHRB aware of this abuse and does it concentrate its efforts on trainers engaged in this practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2021)

Paul Kehoe: Maybe ten or 12 years ago there was drug testing in post-primary schools. Students or parents would sign that their sons or daughters would voluntarily take a drug test. It was not mandatory; it was totally voluntarily. I remember tabling a couple of questions to the Department of Education. The issue of drugs a big problem in terms of peer pressure and bullying. I would be interested to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Veterinary Medicines: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Paul Kehoe: ..." used. I hear them on a regular basis from farmers. I have three or four quick questions. What is the real on-the-ground impact for farmers of the development of resistance antiparasitic drugs such as fluke or worm doses and what has caused this? I asked the last witnesses the following question but they said it was not within their remit to answer it. Faecal egg counts are used...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Minister with responsibility for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (8 Oct 2020)

Paul Kehoe: ...be sure that funding will be used to recruit additional student counsellors and assistant psychologists, as well as other measures for the benefit of students' mental health? There is a significant drug misuse problem in third level institutions. Is the Minister or his Department doing any work on drug misuse? I acknowledge that the Department was only recently set up. Students should...