Results 1-20 of 243 for drugs speaker:Colm Burke

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: ...more people can receive radiotherapy in the new facilities in Cork and Galway. Funding of €98 million in the past three years has meant that patients have better access to new medicines, including 61 cancer drugs. The spend on cancer drugs in the past three years alone was more than €600 million. As has been said, there are now more than 215,000 people living in Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (9 Apr 2024)

Colm Burke: ...experience of growing up with parental problem substance use; if he will take the necessary steps to ensure current funding for services for children and families who are impacted by parental drug and alcohol use is doubled for five years with a review of the services provided evaluated at the end of that time, as recommended by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Mar 2024)

Colm Burke: ...office but no progress has been made since. RTÉ's "Prime Time" programme on Monday night clearly showed there is a real deficiency in the regulation of cosmetic procedures and the availability of drugs and medication in that whole area. There is an urgent need for that Bill to be brought forward and dealt with. I ask that it be given priority.

Rare Diseases: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Colm Burke: ...terms. While some progress has been made, it is not enough. I refer to the report by the Joint Committee on Health in 2018, which set out approximately 15 or 16 recommendations about access to drugs where rare diseases are concerned. It was published on 28 February 2018. I ask the Minister and the Department to go back and look at the report to see how we can fast-track the processing...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: ...issue about the use of pharmacies, for instance. We have a whole lot of people having to attend GPs because you cannot open up the whole distribution of medication. If it is a non-prescriptive drug, you could go into ten different pharmacies and get the same drug on the one day whereas if all of that is computerised you could give a lot more work out to pharmacies and people would not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1634. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prescriptions issued for fentanyl as part of a public drug scheme or in a HSE hospital, psychiatric facility or primary care setting and by a private GP from 2011 to date in 2024, in tabular form. [1055/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Colm Burke: 1635. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prescriptions issued for codeine as part of a public drug scheme or in a HSE hospital, psychiatric facility or primary care setting and by a private GP from 2011 to date in 2024, in tabular form. [1056/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: ...over 65 have certain vulnerabilities and we need to identify those as well and have a vaccine available. The way forward is to have a vaccine programme available. The medication is there, the drugs are now there and they have been approved. It is now about moving on and using them effectively. In real terms, doing a vaccination programme means there are real cost savings for the...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: ...the Minister. The work she has done stands out in the sense of the work being done daily by the Garda. In the last 12 months alone, the Garda has seized more than €271 million worth of illegal drugs, 1,575 firearms and 1,780 knives and dangerous instruments. This is the result of the proactive work of gardaí on the ground, including the work being done by community...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disease Management (28 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: ...that health is not his area but I appreciate his taking this so late in the evening. All of those involved in the whole area of rare diseases, both families and those involved in developing new drugs, are concerned at worsening trends which suggest that rare disease patients in Ireland are being subjected to even longer waiting times before acquiring access to life-changing and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disease Management (28 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister of State. I fully appreciate the funding that has been made available. However, we need to remember the figure I gave at the start. I know very many new orphan drugs have been made available over the past two or three years. We need to remember that we are still talking about the average number of days from approval by the European Medicines Agency to being available...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: ...will do their best. However, that does not prevent the situation arising where the same person can go to different pharmacies in different parts of the country or the city and get the same drug.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Colm Burke: ...? We want to expand what pharmacists can do. If we had a card system in place for everyone just as they have bank cards, the pharmacist could open a person's file and see a person already got a drug in another pharmacy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (11 Jul 2023)

Colm Burke: 687. To ask the Minister for Health the specific drugs that have been considered to date by the rare diseases technology review committee of the HSE, in tabular form; the outcomes of these decisions; the timelines for each from EMA licence to availability to Irish patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33547/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (11 Jul 2023)

Colm Burke: 713. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give due consideration to the inclusion of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and other smoking cessation supports in the drug payment scheme, in light of the costs of smoking on the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33652/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Jun 2023)

Colm Burke: 1259. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reduce the threshold of the drugs payment scheme to a maximum of €50 per month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28245/23]

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

Colm Burke: 627. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prescriptions issued for codeine as part of a public drug scheme or in a HSE hospital, psychiatric facility, or primary care setting and by a private GP from 2011 to date, according to age group, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21613/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Colm Burke: 629. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prescriptions issued for oxycodone as part of a public drug scheme or in a HSE hospital, psychiatric facility or primary care setting and by a private GP from 2011 to date, in tabular form. [19580/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (21 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 1240. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prescriptions issued for fentanyl as part of a public drug scheme or in a HSE hospital, psychiatric facility or primary care setting and by a private GP from 2011 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12599/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (21 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 1241. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prescriptions issued for codeine as part of a public drug scheme or in a HSE hospital, psychiatric facility or primary care setting and by a private GP from 2011 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12600/23]