Results 1-18 of 18 for drugs speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (27 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 734. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to add a diagnosed condition (details supplied) to the long-term illness scheme, or to the medical card or drugs payment schemes for medication to treat the condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31215/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Inquiries (25 Jan 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...of 27 July 2021, if he will provide an update in relation to the proposed inquiry into the licensing of sodium valproate; when the inquiry will begin; when engagement with families affected by the drug will commence; and the timeline for the delivery of the report. [3099/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Jul 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1947. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the inquiry into the anti-epilepsy drug sodium valproate; if the inquiry has commenced; when engagement with families affected by disabilities associated with the drug will commence; and the timeline for the delivery of the report. [35963/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (24 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1466. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to add cariban, xonvea and navalem to the approved drugs list under the drugs payment scheme; and the treatments available under the drugs payment scheme to treat hyperemesis gravidarum. [14304/21]

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...treatment and got himself clean. Despite this, because there was no aftercare plan for when he left detoxification treatment and because the only hostels available were low-threshold hostels where active drug users were staying, he had no other option but to sleep rough. These are three real-life cases from my constituency. I am sure colleagues from all sides of the House have...

Public Health, Well-being and National Drugs Strategy: Statements (10 Sep 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...is providing and the reality in many constituencies, urban and rural, throughout the State. As the Minister of State knows, I represent Dublin Mid-West and I was a former member of the Clondalkin drug and alcohol task force. Before speaking here today, I spoke to a number of managers of local drugs services and members of the task force. I want to reflect for the Minister of State what...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing campaign by families of persons with the hereditary blood disease ATTR amyloidosis; and the status of the licensing of the drug patisiran. [16029/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (16 Jun 2020)

Eoin Ó Broin: 531. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons with multiple sclerosis wait a longer period of time for access to new drugs than their counterparts across the EU; the action he is taking to reduce this differential; and the time frame within which all persons with MS will have full and equal access to all forms of treatment including new drugs. [10853/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (15 Oct 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if members of the drugs squad are no longer operating out of the Garda station in Clondalkin, Dublin 22; when the last remaining members of the drugs squad were removed from that station; the number of drugs squad personnel and the rank of each stationed in the station in each of the years 2007 to 2018 and to date in 2019;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (21 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 452. To ask the Minister for Health the outcome of the HSE Leadership Team meeting on 14 May 2019 with respect to the issue of Spinraza; and when the drug will be made available to those that need it. [22020/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (8 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 878. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE drugs group met to consider the revised pricing proposal from the manufacturer of Spinraza; if so, the recommendation of the HSE leadership team; and when the leadership team will make a final decision on the reimbursement of the drug. [19385/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (26 Mar 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 847. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to each drugs task force for each year since 2008; the population covered by each task force; and his plans to increase core funding for the task forces in 2019 [13664/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (6 Mar 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...' mental health support service, Jigsaw, which would result in the loss of that service to its current base of north Clondalkin. It is proposed that the service move to Tallaght. The Clondalkin drug and alcohol task force has written to all of the Deputies in the constituency to raise several concerns. In terms of the adult mental health team, it has said:The removal of front line...

Emergency Homeless Accommodation and Direct Provision Independent Inspection Bill 2018: First Stage (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: .... The Dublin Region Homeless Executive, DRHE, received over 300 such complaints about emergency accommodation in Dublin. Issues raised included damp accommodation, insect infestation, limited facilities, drug use and, in many cases, soiled bedding. I live in a constituency in which there is a large direct provision centre and engage with the residents at that location regularly. They...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...they are too fearful to go into emergency accommodation, especially dormitory-style emergency accommodation, because of the fear of theft and violence as well as the fear of being in proximity to drug use when they are going through detoxification. On these grounds, the decision to sleep rough is not a choice. These people simply believe they have no other option because of the failure...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (1 Feb 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 39. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department has had consultation with the European Medicines Agency on the application for market authorisation in the EU for the drug nusinersen; the timeframe, following a decision from the EMA, in which the NCPE can commence its own process for assessment; the timeframe for this drug to be available; and if he will make a statement on the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tiglin Challenge (19 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...they are still homeless. The only emergency homeless accommodation or relatively low threshold emergency accommodation in, say, in Dublin city centre would have a relatively high volume of active drug use in the dormitory accommodation to which a person who has had a detox will not want to go. It forces them to sleep rough and creates another cycle. Have the witnesses any...

Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...are working hard to make Clondalkin a better place in which to live and work. Unfortunately, however, as Deputy McDonald outlined, Clondalkin has experienced a disproportionate level of gun and drug-related crime. Some of it has hit the headlines, including recent shootings and gun attacks on local businesses, but much of the gun and drug-related crime does not make the newspapers at...