Results 1-20 of 30 for drugs speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...money in the bank for people. We should always be conscious of the potential impacts. People will rightly take conscious decisions in respect of what initiatives they take or what they do regarding employment when they are trying to protect their medical cards because, as I say, it really is money in the bank for them. In the context of income, Deputy Cullinane made a valid point on...

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...area. My colleagues, Deputies Gould and Ward, have undertaken extensive work in the fields of mental health, rehabilitation and the treatment of addiction. We want to see a health-led approach to drug addiction. It serves no one, neither the individual who is caught in addiction or society itself, to treat this person as a criminal. The knock-on effects this has include restricting an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (22 Feb 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 217. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain the drug cariban; the reason cariban cannot be prescribed by a GP on the drugs payment scheme given that most women do not see a consultant until after 12 weeks; the steps pregnant women can take to help with the extreme nausea and vomiting for the first 12 weeks or...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Taoiseach will be familiar with the situation regarding the drug Cariban. There was an announcement of a reimbursement fund, which was welcomed. I have been contacted by many constituents about this, and I know the Taoiseach commented on it before Christmas. Women who are struggling with hyperemesis have the choice between suffering with this debilitating condition or finding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: .... I think we are calling it generation Z, kids aged between 14 and 18. Is Dr. Muldoon beginning to see any of this reduction? Is there much that we can point to in this regard? Alcohol and drug abuse have a major impact on mental health. There is, obviously, a great deal of harmful and risky behaviour still and we should be far from complacent, but there seems to be some germ of a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (29 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible to seek tax relief at 20% on medical expenses where said medical expenses have also been subject to a refund under the drug payment scheme. [47747/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (26 Apr 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1801. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the licence application for cannabis for medical use under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 in respect of a person (details supplied) which is supported by their medical professionals; if the application will be approved; the reason for the delay in this instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20998/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (26 Jan 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 189. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to including treatments for hyperemesis gravidarum on the drugs payment scheme and medical card; and if he will consider including these treatments for those who qualify for a medical card or under the drugs payment scheme. [3873/22]

Early Exit from Peat for Electricity Generation: Statements (6 Nov 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...-out. One thing that struck me was how isolated parts of Wales, Yorkshire and Derbyshire endured destitution after the mines closed. There were extraordinary levels of unemployment, poverty and drug addiction and various other social problems. It was tragic, to be honest. The mines were closed. Bad and all as that decision was, nothing came in afterwards to support them. This struck...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Jul 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 501. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns regarding the prescription of synthetic T4 drugs in response to a diagnosis of hypothyroidism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29872/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Releases (18 Jun 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 240. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to remove the prohibition on temporary release for those offenders who receive the presumptive mandatory sentence for a drugs or firearms offence as recommended by the strategic review group on penal policy in 2014. [24999/19]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (12 Jun 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...a living nightmare for the communities that have to live with this. People have become terrorised and they have lost hope that it will come to an end. A climate of fear, violence, intimidation, drug-running and other forms of criminality accompanies such gangsterism. There has been a devastating impact on communities. There have been six gang-related murders so far this year, with three...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gangland Crime (16 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...recent events in Drogheda, County Louth, and the need for additional Garda resources; and if he will consider a model similar to that of the task force in the north inner city in response to ongoing drug-related incidents in the town. [20944/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (15 Jan 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 663. To ask the Minister for Health if the application for reimbursement of Ocrevus for persons with relapsing MS and primary progressive MS has been discussed by the HSE drugs group; if so, the decisions that were made; if these drugs will be on the agenda for the next meeting of the HSE leadership team; when persons with MS who are eligible candidates for Ocrevus can expect to have access...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (15 Nov 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 107. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans being made by the Health Products Regulatory Authority and-or the Health Service Executive to license and make available for reimbursement the drug Ocrevus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47456/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug and Alcohol Testing (23 Oct 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 309. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drivers that tested positive for drug driving at new mandatory checkpoints in 2018, by month in tabular form. [43260/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (18 Sep 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí attached to a drugs unit in each Garda district in County Donegal in each of the years 2002 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [37072/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (12 Jul 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau in the Cork city division in each of the years 2009 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [32346/18]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...to gang activity. However, there has also been considerable loss of life. Between 2016 and 2017, 22 people died in gang-related killings. Against that background, and the violence, intimidation, drug running and other forms of criminality that go along with such gangsterism, there has been a devastating impact on communities, creating a climate of fear and concern. This is not a...