Results 1-20 of 216 for drugs speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...is especially the case given the citizens' assembly has made the recommendations. On the wider issue, we are clear about this and straight up. We believe in the legalisation and regulation of drugs because we think criminalisation has failed disastrously. It has done far more damage to our society than would legalising and regulating drugs properly, and it is doing it every day. It...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 674. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE has plans to fund the drug, dupilumab which is used to treat a form of asthma, under the reimbursement scheme; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29408/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (23 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 734. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of reducing the maximum payment on the drug payment scheme to €40; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24181/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-East Inner City Initiative (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...real and significant problems. In response to people going on about anti-social behaviour, criminality and so on, I must say that the number of people who come to my clinic who have been caught up in drug addiction or crime at some point in their lives, and who went through the industrial schools or who were abused in residential care of one kind or another is highly disproportionate....

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...gardaí or others find themselves in difficulty, sometimes in jeopardy or at the wrong end of unjustified abuse, then we need to take that notion seriously. One issue central to that is the question of how we deal with drugs. It seems that the entire strategy that has been pursued for decades has failed abysmally. The Garda, communities and society generally end up picking up the...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...waiting on help. I live further away from my family home, his home, and I arrived before the ambulance did, he was still alive, when I arrived, he was in so much pain. He wasn't a drinker or on drugs, we will have to wait to find out how and why he passed. I will not get into the political stuff but she goes on to absolutely castigate the parties of Government. She is very explicit in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach knows, one of the biggest issues in areas of significant deprivation is the impact of drug addiction on individuals, families and communities. I have often heard Government spokespeople pay lip service to the idea that we need to move away from the criminal approach to dealing with this problem and take a health-related approach but, in fact, we have not done that at all. I...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and in particular to review the way a lack of resources for alternative approaches is driving the overuse of medication given the concern in relation to the rapid rise in the use of psychiatric drugs in children". I asked that question in April 2021. The Minister did not answer the question but bounced it. He said that it was essentially not for him to answer. When I asked him to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 477. To ask the Minister for Health if persons with Crohn’s disease who are on immunosuppressant drugs are considered to be vulnerable to Covid-19; the position of such persons in the vaccine roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29616/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and in particular to review the way a lack of resources for alternative approaches is driving the overuse of medication given the concern in relation to the rapid rise in the use of psychiatric drugs in children (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21860/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 777. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug semaglutide has been removed from the drugs payment scheme for use by polycystic ovary syndrome patients; his plans to reinstate it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12672/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 778. To ask the Minister for Health the reason semaglutide has been removed from the drugs payment scheme for use by polycystic ovary syndrome patients; if he plans to reinstate the drug on the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12674/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 779. To ask the Minister for Health if drugs for the treatment of hyperemesis gravidarum are being considered for the drugs payment scheme or medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12677/21]

Pre-European Council: Statements (2 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...anywhere in the world, including in this country. People, including European leaders, need to get that into their heads. We do not need a repeat of the disgraceful position with retroviral AIDS drugs, when poorer countries were pleading to have access to the technology to produce generic and cheap versions for distribution but big pharmaceutical companies did not want to do it because it...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...inequity in the cancer treatment available to people with malignant melanoma. Some people who have the right private health insurance can get access to pembro and other potentially life saving drugs, while others who do not have private health insurance or have the wrong policy cannot. It is shameful that money should dictate access to cancer care which could be potentially life saving....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...two-tier health system. However, Professor John Crown highlighted recently the shocking situation where people with cancer, specifically stage III melanoma, cannot get the optimum healthcare - the drug pembrolizumab - and other potentially life-saving drugs because they do not have private health insurance, or do not have a particular form of private health insurance. In the last week, I...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (8 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 905. To ask the Minister for Health when ocrelizumab will be available to persons with multiple sclerosis who were promised access to the drug in January 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19511/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...question, which was simple and specific. Does he believe it is immoral that a person who receives a cancer diagnosis would get a different level of treatment and access to potentially life-saving drugs depending on whether or not he or she can afford particular private health insurance plans? I believe this is medical apartheid. It is as simple as that. Whatever about the general...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...happens to be a public patient who does not have or cannot afford extortionate levels of private health insurance, may have a less chance of surviving cancer because he or she may not be prescribed drugs that others who have private health insurance would get to improve their life chances? That is immoral. A two-tier health system is outrageous but two-tier cancer treatment is obscene....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Taoiseach discuss with the Portuguese Prime Minister Portugal's model for dealing with illicit drugs? There are major parallels, historically and socially, between Portugal and Ireland in the sense that Portugal developed a big problem with illicit drugs at a similar time to this country in the 1980s. It was an enormous problem, with high rates of HIV, drug related crime, addiction...