Results 1-20 of 158 for drugs speaker:Fergus O'Dowd

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Key Issues Affecting Youth: North South Youth Forum (15 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: On the issue of Cox's Demesne, I am a local TD and Senator McGahon is a local Senator. I am more than happy to visit it and take up those issues. Drugs have devastated the community in Drogheda in many respects. That is the key issue. It is the same in Belfast, Drogheda and everywhere else with young people. We need much more involvement from statutory and voluntary agencies to tackle...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1580. To ask the Minister for Health if he expects ozempic to be added to the GMS list for weight loss; the reason the drug is not available under the drug payments, considering the considerable impact it is having on weight and the associated positive effect it is having on health, thus reducing the long term requirement for other services linked to obesity and weight problems; and if he...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...convicted of that crime, although some have been arrested and later released. I live in County Louth which has suffered greatly, even recently. We all know about the appalling criminality and the drug intimidation that took place in Drogheda, in particular, the dismembering of a child. The answer was a Government response, through the Minister, Deputy McEntee, in which €16...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (5 Dec 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 609. To ask the Minister for Health as part of Government’s response to drug intimidation, if the full-time recommended role for the drug-related intimidation and violence engagement programme has been progressed, and if it has been affected by the recent moratorium announced within the Health Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53781/23]

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: As the grandparent of a child who is five years of age, I can understand the trauma and upset of the families concerned and all those injured. In Drogheda just over two years ago, we had a deadly drugs feud that resulted in violence, deaths and widespread fear and intimidation. The Minister responded to that in the appropriate way. Following a period of lack of interest in what was going...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Mapping Diversity, Negotiating Differences: Constitutional Discussions on a Shared Island: Discussion (9 Nov 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...of nowhere with very poor infrastructure, and with young people who are completely involved in a struggle to live, to try to get a job and an education. Many of these communities are riddled with drugs and crime. These places are the same in the North as they are in the South and the only difference might be the religion or the flag that might be flying in the local community. One of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (11 Oct 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...of the impacts of the resignations is that if the numbers in a particular cohort are lower than we need, it will often impact community gardaí. I live in a town that has had a lot of trouble with drugs, crime, etc., and the community gardaí there are a huge advantage. They provide a major support service to the community and, in particular, to the people who live in communities...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Sep 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 547. To ask the Minister for Health to provide full clarity on the very welcome €445,000 awarded to CHO8 for drugs and inclusion health services announced in August 2023; to seek the details on how the funds will be distributed to key frontline drug addiction organisations who are facing very difficult winter periods in terms of funding shortfalls; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (4 Jul 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...the current situation with respect to Irish soldiers who used malarone, doxycycline and lariam for overseas service; if any compensation process is open to soldiers adversely affected by the drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32040/23]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...for the murder of Keane Mulready Woods, a young child who was murdered and his body dismembered. The court passed sentence for that crime and there will be other such crimes in our society because the drugs and the drug dealers are not going away. The use of the Special Criminal Court must be exceptional and rare and here must be a real and present danger to jurors. As a Border Deputy,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Courts Service (25 May 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome the Minister's response and concur entirely with his view that the Special Criminal Court has been a key component of democracy's response to serious intimidation from paramilitaries, drug barons and evil people who would otherwise stalk this land and intimidate jurors. The Special Criminal Court should be used in exceptional circumstances. The fact that there are three judges...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (25 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 513. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the drug seroquel being given to nursing home residents in cases in which the resident suffers from dementia; if there are known contraindications for such administration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18991/23]

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...convicted? That is a fundamental and real question for her to answer. A key issue in our society, and it is something we have to think about and address, including through public information, is recreational drug use. At present, every time somebody takes a line of cocaine or smokes whatever the drug is for recreational use, somewhere down the line that money is going into the...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...Louth, with one clear exception. Deputy Ó Murchú is well aware, familiar and supportive of what is happening in the town of Drogheda and in County Louth in fighting crime, organised crime and drugs. There were appalling murders, the dismembering of a young boy, the burning of homes and fear and loathing in every street and part of our town two or three years ago. As a result...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Ms Bronagh Hinds (2 Mar 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...knowledge or part of the system that was operating the funding. It is very difficult to understand why they were being left out and were being given inadequate support when they were dealing with drugs and crime.

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...brought not just Drogheda, where I live, to national attention and international notoriety was the context of the murder of Keane Mulready-Woods, who was a young person, a child, as a result of a drug feud. That epitomised how low those people who are involved in criminal gangs and the drug trade can go. It was a shocking and appalling murder and our town was and still is riddled with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (18 Jan 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...Minister for Health the details of the way that the Government is actively addressing the serious shortage of penicillin-based antibiotics along with a significant number of additional high-level drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1486/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. John Bruton (8 Dec 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...had a very good debate in Dublin Castle on Monday. There was a lady there representing the Protestant community who made the point that her community, a working-class community, is destroyed with drugs and crime, just like our communities. If we are really serious about change in both the North and South, we have to tackle this. If we can work on initiatives that benefit everybody...

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...increase the maximum sentence for conspiracy to murder from ten years to life. As the Minister well knows, Drogheda - I thank her for her attention and her visits to the town - is a priority for the Government as a result of drug crime. Significantly, more than 30 additional gardaí have been deployed to police the community. More importantly, they will reassure the community by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (12 Jul 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1029. To ask the Minister for Health if the cost of the drug Ozempic will be refunded under the drugs payment scheme if it is prescribed by a doctor to prevent the development of diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37935/22]