Results 1-20 of 184 for drugs speaker:Gino Kenny

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: This drug has been used with other conditions. Dr. Lambert said it was quite beneficial for those with long Covid. Have the witnesses been prescribed LDN?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: It is not a considered drug in relation to the HSE. Will doctors prescribe it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: Are some medical practitioners using that drug to treat patients with long Covid?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Substance Misuse (22 Feb 2024)

Gino Kenny: 18. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a regional breakdown of where charges for possession of a controlled drug for personal use have been issued in the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8325/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Substance Misuse (22 Feb 2024)

Gino Kenny: 34. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many minors or people aged under 18 years have been charged with possession of a controlled drug for personal use for each of the year 2017 to 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8324/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (13 Feb 2024)

Gino Kenny: It is good news that a special committee is being set up to consider the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use. That is a good development about which I have a number of questions. First, when will that committee commence and, second, how long will it go on for? If it goes on for a protracted period, it could run into the next general election and then nothing will happen....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Gino Kenny: Treatment has been evolving in recent decades. What is at the cutting edge of non-invasive treatment or drugs? Is there any bespoke treatment that Dr. O'Philbin would suggest for dementia care?

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

Gino Kenny: ...in the House 11 years ago on a similar proposal. I completely disagree with some of the views expressed. An argument that has always really annoyed me is that cannabis is a gateway to harder drugs. That is absolute rubbish. When people talk about harder drugs, they are referring to heroin. The gateway to heroin is not cannabis; it is poverty, alienation and serious trauma. We should...

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

Gino Kenny: ...great commitment on this issue. This debate has gone on for decades. In my living memory, the default position of the State has always been to continue to criminalise and incarcerate people for drug use. Whatever one believes as to the moral and ethical issues around drug use, we have had six decades of this. Ireland has one of the highest drug-related death rates in Europe. Our...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: One of the main elements of the report was not paying lip service to our approach but changing the legislation. The Taoiseach said criminalising people for possession of small amounts of drugs, no matter what the drugs are, is simply a waste of resources for the State. Whether people use drugs or not is irrelevant. The proliferation of drugs and availability of drugs is widespread. It is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: Tomorrow, the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use will publish its final report. It will be an historic day in the context of this issue. The assembly has made 30 recommendations calling for reform of our current drug policy. It has stated that drug use and misuse is a public health issue, rather than a criminal one. Overall, the sentiment is that the status quo of criminalisation does not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: When a child who has had an assessment and is on medication comes into CAMHS is the assessment changed with regard to how the drug is prescribed?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023)

Gino Kenny: In October, the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use made more than 30 recommendations in respect of our drugs policy. Has the Taoiseach received that report from the chair of the assembly? If so, when will he make it public? Most importantly, what does the Government plan to do to implement those recommendations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Gino Kenny: Are most drugs such as morphine for general pain management?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Gino Kenny: Will the vast majority of people in palliative care be administered some sort of drug for pain management?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: My final question is on a matter I raised in the Chamber a number of weeks ago, namely, the cutbacks in funding for new drugs and treatments, in particular cancer treatments. Even Mr. Bernard Gloster recently stated that this issue would result in a significant slowdown in the further development of clinical programmes, which would not be good whatsoever. A cohort of people rely on these...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: Will the Minister repeat that? He said €3.2 billion is spent on drugs per year.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: That is a good thing. I hope people are reassured by what the Minister has said, particularly people who were hoping to get access to these new medicines. They can get access to the drug their GP or their specialist recommended or they can get a biosimilar. That is really important because people have written to me, and I am sure written to all TDs, because they are very worried they...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (15 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: 133. To ask the Minister for Health given the protective notice that the staff at a Clondalkin-based support centre for drugs and alcohol intervention programme have been issued (details supplied), when funding will be made available to the project next year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50031/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: ...on contaminated heroin. Traces of synthetic opioid were found in samples of the heroin they took. Thankfully, no one has died as a result of the overdoses because of interventions made using a drug called naloxone, which is welcome. There are issues with naloxone, which is a prescribed drug. Experts in the field say it should be more available in the context of treating overdoses. ...