Results 1-20 of 43 for drugs speaker:Brian Stanley

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Brian Stanley: I will put it like this. I do not want to be unfair to those who use e-scooters to travel to work but drug dealers are also using them. It is not just drug dealers in Dublin; I see them locally as well. Pending the introduction of legislation, which I believe would prohibit their use on footpaths - although I am not au fait with the legislation - why can the approximately 10,000 or 11,000...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (3 Oct 2023)

Brian Stanley: 575. To ask the Minister for Health to include the drug ketamine, used for cerebral palsy patients, in the long-term illness scheme. [42197/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...by NHSS include those individually incurred items such as social activities, newspapers and hairdressing. The letter says that a person's eligibility for other schemes such as the medical card scheme and drugs payment scheme is not affected by participation in the NHSS fair deal scheme. We would accept that the first sentence is fine in that any additional activities or services are not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: There is a figure for the overall cost to the public system of the purchase of drugs and medicines, although I cannot recall the exact figure.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...places. Many parents cannot get their child into the local school or even the one in the next village or suburb. People in areas where there is huge housing pressure and sometimes a serious drugs problem and where they have been screaming for services for years become infuriated when they get a lecture from political leaders in more leafy or better-off areas that have taken in nobody. I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...report. That report sets out a number of actions concerning GPs' income related to non-GMS patients, service level agreements in relation to the provision of nurses, telephone triage, drivers, drugs to be used, etc. Why has this not been acted upon? It is now 2023; 13 years have passed. This is partly why the public is frustrated. The HSE and Department felt it was important to have a...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jan 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...Commissioners, dated 14 January 2022. It provides information requested by the committee on ten diverse issues, including the taxation of couriers, the number and associated value of seizures of drugs and cigarettes from 2019 to 2021, expenditure on facilities at Dublin Port and Rosslare Europort due to Brexit, a monthly analysis of the support Revenue has provided to each sector during...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...particular projects that may transfer to healthcare professionals, healthcare facilities, hospitals or any entity working in the public system? We spend in the region of €2.3 billion a year on drugs. It is a substantial amount of money. A number of other European countries and the USA have regulations in place to govern the situation. Mr. Watt will be aware that a number of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...Minister regarding those who have contracts with the public service or entities within the public service on whether they are receiving benefits, financial or otherwise, or benefit-in-kind from a drugs company. Is Mr. Watt aware of whether there has been a discussion in that regard – "Yes" or "No" – on the public registration of that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...influence in respect of the prescribing of medication. Undue influence could be exerted by big pharmaceutical companies, which have a lot of clout, to promote a particular brand or quantity of a drug. That is of concern. As the student pointed out, the State alone spent €2.3 billion on pharmaceuticals in 2020. It rose from €1.3 billion in 2012, so it is a substantial...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...it for discussion. On the point raised by Deputy Verona Murphy on the well-being of patients if overprescribing were happening, it would not be a healthy situation — pardon the pun. If certain drug companies have undue influence on medical practitioners or services generally in this country, it is very worrying. Deputy Colm Burke is correct about contracts. The best thing to do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Council of Ireland Report: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Brian Stanley: ...is not a professionally qualified person. The employer may make decisions that are not in the interest of the veterinary profession or, indeed, of animal health. These decisions may concern drugs, medicines or other veterinary practices. There are reports from other jurisdictions of companies putting time limits on vets making calls. I do not know how this would work in rural areas...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Oct 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...been recommended here and in another EU state as being beneficial but which practitioners here are refusing to prescribe due to potential liability; and if, in such cases it is possible to have the drug prescribed in another EU state. [40741/18]

Rural Crime: Motion (21 Nov 2017)

Brian Stanley: ..., shots were fired at gardaí by the occupants of a stolen car in Monasterevin. Countless burglaries have also taken place. The list goes on. The Garda is making some inroads, however, including a recent drugs find valued at approximately €1 million. This significant discovery shows the value of having the drugs squad up and running again, as Sinn Féin demanded at the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (26 Jul 2017)

Brian Stanley: 711. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the approval and provision of the drug Translarna for the treatment of persons with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. [35162/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Products Supply (26 Jul 2017)

Brian Stanley: 714. To ask the Minister for Health if the cancer treatment drug, Palbociclib, is not being provided to newly diagnosed persons after 1 August 2017 due to costs; and if so, if he will review the decision and outline the cost of the drug [35174/17]

Anti-Malarial Medication: Motion (28 Jun 2017)

Brian Stanley: ...which continues to issue Lariam to military personnel. It has been estimated that over 7,000 Defence Forces personnel have received it. Major side effects and consequences are associated with the drug and these must be recognised. People in my constituency who have been pursuing this matter diligently have been affected by it. As with many things, the Government is behind the curve. I...

Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Apr 2016)

Brian Stanley: ...extra €35 million allocated for mental health this year, which was to be ring-fenced. There are many reasons for suicide. Most of them can be fixed. Among the reasons can be financial stress, drugs, alcohol, family relationship breakdown, lack of self-worth or the overuse of so-called social media. 6 o’clock I use the term "so-called" deliberately as there is an...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Brian Stanley: ...There is also the issue of cherry-picking with what are regarded as the best tenants going into the approved housing body schemes while the ones deemed to be more difficult - perhaps they have a drug habit or whatever - going into the local authority housing. In terms of social integration we are winding up with another form of segregation. The affordable housing scheme has dried up...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescription Charges (30 Sep 2014)

Brian Stanley: 379. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that when a person's medication dose for some drugs is increased on their prescription, that is Butrans, from 20mg to 30mg they are charged €5 twice because the patch only contains 20mg. [36755/14]