Results 1-20 of 56 for drugs speaker:Peter Fitzpatrick

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...issues such as speeding and driving while intoxicated by introducing a safer default speed limit on national secondary roads, local and rural roads and in built-up areas, introducing mandatory drug checks at collision scenes and reforming the penalty points systems to enable motorists to receive multiples sets of penalty points where multiple offences are committed. These measures are...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...for October and there will also be similar plans in place for Christmas and the New Year. Other measures include a change to intoxicant testing rules whereby gardaí would be required to test for drugs at the scene of road collisions. We want to see people being safe on the road, driving within speed limits, not using mobile phone while driving, which is extremely dangerous - and...

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: .... However, the projected population for 2026 was surpassed last year. We are therefore working from out-of-date projections. As in all other sectors, medical inflation is resulting in price increases for contemporary, effective drugs and devices. Bernard Gloster, who runs the HSE, is in a difficult position. The HSE must either put forward a service plan that has an inbuilt deficit or...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Sep 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...worse, the Minister for Justice and Commissioner Harris intend to impose roster changes that will result in the depletion of existing units such as the community policing units, task force units, drug units and district detective units in an attempt to fill a new unit come November and which will also force gardaí to work more days and more hours for no additional pay. The reality is...

Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...people away from a life of crime. The programme for Government contains two commitments in this regard. These are to legislate to address the coercion and use of minors in the sale and supply of drugs and the criminalisation of adults who groom children to commit crimes. This Bill is designed to fulfil both these commitments by recognising and making punishable in law the harm caused to...

Reform of Carer's Allowance Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...which can be more than most due to illness. The means test often does not take into consideration the extra waste disposal charges due to medical waste, or the fact that carers have to pay charges for having prescription drug sheets written up every six months. Some have to travel regularly for appointments and incur the cost of parking, fuel, childcare etc. That is on 78 cent an hour....

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

Peter Fitzpatrick: First and foremost, I commend the Government on the national drugs strategy, which rightly promotes a more compassionate and humane approach to people who use drugs. By treating addiction as a health issue rather than solely as a criminal justice issue, we have the opportunity to educate and empower people at an individual level to improve their health, well-being and quality of life through...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Dec 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: .... His is just one story. I speak with homeless people with addictions in my clinic weekly. They often become homeless as a result of numerous addictions, such as gambling, drink and drugs. Saying that the number of people addicted to gambling lies somewhere between 0.5% and just over 1% is massaging the figures. If we examined the proportion of regular gamblers who became addicted, we...

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...the staff do their best. Many of the homeless people who come into my office have an addiction problem. Emergency accommodation is a good place to go but most of them refuse to go there because they maintain that drugs are available there. This is something we must examine given the amount of money the Government is spending on emergency accommodation. Similarly within social...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: .... Many of the homeless people who come into my office have an addiction problem. The emergency accommodation is a good place to go but most of them refuse to go there because they maintain there are drugs available in them. This is something we must examine, given the amount of money the Government is spending on emergency accommodation. If there is a problem with drugs in them, then...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Oct 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 315. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government has any plans to reintroduce the medication ozempic, for treatment for diabetes, to be covered under the medical card scheme or the drug payments scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52632/22]

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...'s waiting-list action plans and I will chase after it to see how this money is spent. With an additional 847 permanent beds in the past three years, we do not seem to see their impact, but I welcome the reduction of the drugs payment scheme threshold from €124 to €80 and a successful vaccination roll-out. I have spoken to many constituents and businesses in my area who...

The National Youth Justice Strategy 2021-2027 and Supporting Community Safety: Statements (6 Oct 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...coming before the courts. As a society, we must always ensure that crime never pays. We have seen in recent times, particularly in my own county of Louth, where criminals get children involved in drug crime with the lure of designer clothes and shoes to begin with. Once these children get involved, it becomes almost impossible for them to get free from the criminals. This is where we...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...streets in Dundalk and Drogheda and seeing vacant properties. They cannot understand why they cannot get a home. Residents in lovely areas have vacant properties and all we see is antisocial behaviour. We can see drug takers and people on corners. It is wrong. Louth County Council is one of the leading authorities at the moment. It is pleading for the Minister to give it more...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (23 Jun 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...2009 for a further 12 months. The Act was put in place to combat organised crime. In the town of Drogheda in my constituency, over the last number of years there has been a turf war involving two drug groups. The devastation and destruction that this has caused in the town cannot be overstated. Families have been destroyed, lives have been ruined and lost, communities have been divided...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Apr 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...are, in my opinion, the forgotten people of crime. They are the innocent victims of crime. They are left to pick up the pieces on many occasions. In my constituency, Louth, we have been plagued by a drug feud involving two rival factions in Drogheda. Unfortunately, lives have been lost and destroyed, and families have been torn apart. Many families in Drogheda now live in fear as a...

Mental Health Policy: Motion [Private Members] (9 Dec 2020)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...from mental health issues try to access resources, but they are turned away. On occasion, unfortunately, that has resulted in tragedy. That must not be allowed to continue. A person does not need to be a drug addict, an alcoholic or homeless in order to suffer from mental health challenges. On too many occasions I have seen situations where people did not have any outward symptoms and,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Sep 2020)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 1204. To ask the Minister for Health when the drug kalydeco will be made be available to patients for the treatment of cystic fibrosis in view of the fact the clinical trial for same has finished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21578/20]

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...brought back into the housing stock immediately. It is a disgrace that these homes continue to lie idle and fall into further disrepair. There is a danger that many of them will become dens for drug addicts and alcoholics. I cannot understand why the Government will not provide the council with the funds to bring these homes back into the housing stock. Surely it would be more cost...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Nov 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: A very serious drug turf war is going on between two criminal gangs based mainly in Drogheda, with members of both gangs living locally in Louth and Meath. This began in July 2018 when a drug dealer was shot and survived. A man was subsequently murdered in Clogherhead in August, and another man was recently shot dead in a lovely quiet cul-de-sac in Bettystown. The Garda and I suspect that...