Results 1-20 of 76 for drugs speaker:Joan Collins

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: ...to work towards pay parity with public sector workers. Many workers have not received any increase at all. I am well aware of this because I sit on the board of the Canal Communities Local Drug and Alcohol Task Force. In general, funding for task force projects and posts has not increased since 2009. Many salaries were subject to cuts after the crash until 2021, when pay was restored...

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

Joan Collins: I thank Deputy Gino Kenny and People Before Profit for introducing the Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022. I welcome this Bill and I will be supporting it. I also welcome the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use report released last week. The citizens' assembly report has given the Government a mandate to move this country's national drug policy away from a focus on punishment and...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Joan Collins: ...for accident and emergency departments, etc., throughout the country coming into the winter. This will have a massive effect on both patients and staff. We will see cutbacks for plans for cancer care, plans for youth and adult mental health care and trials for new drugs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Joan Collins: ...a demand, we are not getting the resources. We should try to highlight that. I would like to hear what the representatives think about today's meeting. Task forces were set up in respect of the drugs strategy 25 years ago. All statutory bodies and all the people who had a stake in following up that work were on those task forces. Is something like that needed at a fairly high level to...

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

Joan Collins: I welcome the formation of the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use. Can the microphone be turned on? I have co-signed the amendments put forward by Deputy Cairns and I, supported by Senator Ruane. Ireland's drug policy has never achieved what it set out to achieve. There are thousands of convictions each year, the majority of which are around personal use. Young people face the brunt of...

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

Joan Collins: ...start of a conversation that must go much deeper than what is outlined in the motion. I will explain that in a moment. I seek a commitment from the Minister of State that a citizens' assembly on drugs will be put place in the first quarter of next year. If it is the case that one is to set up, a motion to formalise the position must come before the Oireachtas in early January. That...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug Dealing (29 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: 552. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality number of drug dealing convictions under mandatory minimum sentencing provisions for possession of drugs over a value of €12,500 as set out in section 27 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 (as amended by the Criminal Justice Acts 1999, 2006 and 2007) during the years 2011 to 2016. [58919/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: I am on the board of the Canal Communities Local Drug and Alcohol Task Force. At our last meeting, one of the project co-ordinators raised a serious issue that will impact on Turas Training, the project on which he is a co-ordinator. It is based on Old Naas Road in Dublin 12. Turas Training was founded in 2000 is funded by the HSE under section 39 and by the Department of Social...

Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (22 Feb 2022)

Joan Collins: ...18 should be included. Additionally, it is astounding to put the Dublin citizens' assembly, including a focus on a directly elected mayor, ahead of the proposed citizens' assembly to deal with the drugs issue. I ask the Government to reconsider this or else have three citizens' assemblies being held concurrently. The Taoiseach himself said on 9 February: As regards drugs policy, it is...

Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (16 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: ...be a difficult period for those workers. I raise the urgency of the need for a response and to build up the booster programme, and access to it. On 29 November, the Canal Communities Local Drug & Alcohol Task Force discussed the issue of the booster vaccination programme at a meeting. I had attended the Citywest vaccination centre at 8 a.m. that day. I was a walk-in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (7 Dec 2021)

Joan Collins: For 25 years, our national drugs strategy has been underpinned by a community development approach. In 1996, the then Minister, on behalf of the State, acknowledged to community leaders who had been campaigning on the drugs issue for years that the then Government had not listened. The Minister set up a partnership structure that included community representation as a right to ensure that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Travellers' Experiences in Prison and Related Matters: Discussion (21 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: ...how many reoffend? Is there a figure for that, for both men and women? I would be interested in that. I am also interested in the link between petty crime leading to further crimes, relating to drugs or anything like that, after Travelling men and women go into prison and the effect that has due to linking in with other harder criminals within the prison system. What are the crimes...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2021)

Joan Collins: ...into account many unnecessary items. Calculations should be based on minimum essential budget standards because that is what people are feeling on the ground. It was very disingenuous of the Tánaiste to make those remarks. Finally, there was no mention of funding for the drugs task forces in the budget. There was no increase in the allocation between 2014 and 2018. In fact,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Functions (13 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: ...the task force. That completely ignores the fact that the decision on the appointment of the new chair has already been taken by the collective membership of the task force in accordance with the drugs and alcohol task force handbook guidelines. I thank the Minister of State for his stated intention to meet public representatives but the key here is to talk to the task force. I welcome...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Functions (13 Jul 2021)

Joan Collins: The Department of Health has suspended the activities of the north inner city drug and alcohol task force and is putting in place its own process to appoint a chairperson and broaden its membership. The Department of Health is basing this decision on an accusation of governance shortcomings in the north inner city drug and alcohol task force. I have been talking to the task force members...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: ...from going about building public housing the wrong way. If public housing is used as a social dumping ground with badly designed estates, a lack of facilities, tenants being targeted by criminals to pull them into drug crime and no hope for the families living there, it can lead to problems with crime, drug abuse and anti-social behaviour. It does not have to be like that, and should not...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jun 2021)

Joan Collins: Back in 2017 Orkambi was reimbursed for market distribution here in Ireland and it was a great boost for the cystic fibrosis, CF, community after a long campaign. A new drug, Kaftrio, has been approved in the USA and by the European Medicines Agency, EMA, in April of this year. I tabled a question to the Minister for Health in early May and I was told the applicants had put in the rapid...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 May 2021)

Joan Collins: 666. To ask the Minister for Health when the drug kaftrio for cystic fibrosis patients will be approved for funding for use in Ireland. [23256/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (11 Feb 2021)

Joan Collins: 245. To ask the Minister for Health further to correspondence from the Minister of State with responsibility for public health, well-being and the national drugs strategy (details supplied), when community prison link workers will receive pay restoration due to workers of section 38 and 39 agencies, which included workers in the drugs and alcohol task forces and JIs. [7495/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 Jan 2021)

Joan Collins: 836. To ask the Minister for Health if pay restoration applies to posts established by the drug and alcohol task forces and funded through the HSE with interim funding for the purpose of its costing exercise for pay restoration; if the HSE included all the posts and projects as section 39 funded (details supplied); if the HSE and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform are committed...