Results 1-20 of 27 for drugs speaker:Gerald Nash

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (14 Nov 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 542 of 14 February 2023, if he will confirm when the promised resource for the Drogheda area, by way of provision for a full-time staff post on the drug-related intimidation and violence engagement (DRIVE) programme, as provided for in Budget 2023, will be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49456/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (11 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: 671. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including testosterone cypionate in the drug payment scheme in view of the financial hardships being endured by patients (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33492/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (14 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: 542. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the Drogheda area will be provided with the resources as committed to by his Department to undertake the drug-related intimidation and violence engagement programme; when this programme will commence; the resources that will be made available to the programme in the Drogheda area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6492/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (14 Feb 2023)

Gerald Nash: 543. To ask the Minister for Health when the north-east drugs task force will be provided with the details of its 2023 annual budget allocation; if this allocation will be increased to take account of inflation-driven cost rises; if so, the additional amount of funding in percentage terms to be allocated to the task force compared to 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6493/23]

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

Gerald Nash: 289. To ask the Minister for Health the process, in detail, through which pregnant women in Ireland experiencing extreme nausea can access the drug cariban; the reason that women are having trouble obtaining the drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6362/23]

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

Gerald Nash: 290. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider allowing GPs to prescribe cariban, a drug for pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea that currently is only prescribed by consultants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6363/23]

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

Gerald Nash: 291. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cariban prescriptions processed in Ireland since the drug was added to the DPS in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6364/23]

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

Gerald Nash: ...and to call myself a comrade and a friend of Deputy Ó Ríordáin, who has pioneered reform in this space. It is beyond time that we woke up as a society and as law makers to the stark reality of drugs in our society. We have to face the world as it is, not as we would like our ideal world to be. The world of today, in the Ireland of the 2020s, we simply have to face the...

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...has only in recent days sought a derogation from the European Commission to see if VAT can be cut on energy bills. We have been calling for this for months and it is only being explored now. Yesterday, a local drugs service came to me with its Electric Ireland bill. It is €2,166 since January, which is up from €1,742 for its last bill. It already runs that crucial service...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (22 Jun 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...region of 15% in recorded crime for the station at Laytown between 2016 and 2019. We have seen far too many gang-related criminal problems in the area, with some residents complaining there is open drug dealing going on and people behaving with impunity. Only 7% of all Garda resources in the community are deployed to the east Meath area. Given the size of the agglomerated area made up...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (21 Apr 2021)

Gerald Nash: 2146. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to extend the use of autoimmune drugs such as humira, neupogen and IVIG approved on the drugs payment scheme for the treatment of miscarriages caused by autoimmune issues in view of the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19971/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (21 Apr 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1992. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the campaign by an organisation (details supplied) to make first-line treatments available under the medical card and drug payment scheme; his plans to include cariban on the medical card or on the drug payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19526/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Feb 2021)

Gerald Nash: 209. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) received a supply of Covid-19 vaccinations; when all drug rehabilitation community employment projects are expected to receive Covid-19 vaccinations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6123/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Jan 2021)

Gerald Nash: 1053. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the assessment of the drug dupilumab, which has been life-changing for many persons living with severe atopic eczema; when he expects this assessment to be completed; if he will ensure equitable access to dupilumab for eczema patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1642/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (6 Oct 2020)

Gerald Nash: 716. To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources will be provided to local and regional drugs task forces, in particular to deal with the impact of Covid-19, in budget 2021 and in line with the commitment in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28656/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Jul 2020)

Gerald Nash: 1096. To ask the Minister for Health the reason 12 children with SMA are still waiting to be treated with Spinraza one year after the drug was approved; the reason for the delay; when the matter will finally be addressed by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15076/20]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...the Drogheda area, some of the provisions are not used enough to bring well-known gangsters before the courts and bring them to justice. As the Minister is well aware, two gangs at war over the drugs trade in my home town have wreaked havoc over the past two or more years. The Garda, the Criminal Assets Bureau and other agencies have done really important work and have achieved some...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Gerald Nash: It is timely that we have a debate in the Chamber on the health impacts of drug use and misuse in this country. We have had many debates in recent weeks on the Garda and criminal justice response to drugs in our communities. Any time I have had the opportunity to participate in those debates, I always refer to the need to address these issues from a health and not a criminal justice...

Seanad: Illegal Drugs: Motion (13 Nov 2019)

Gerald Nash: ...and I make no apologies for doing so. I call it a gangland feud for a range of reasons. Senator Ruane articulated very eloquently the spectrum of issues communities experience in terms of problem drug use, drug abuse, casual drug use and the fallout from these. We all know in this Chamber the variety of reasons for which individuals may decide to choose to engage in drug use of one form...

Seanad: Crime Policy: Motion (2 Oct 2019)

Gerald Nash: ....This is a timely debate. I thank our Fianna Fáil colleagues for the motion. Gangland crime is not restricted only to Dublin and areas that are considered to be cities. The nature of the drugs trade in Ireland and elsewhere means that gang crime and all that goes with it has seeped out to my own home town of Drogheda. Drogheda has been beset by a drugs war in the last year,...