Results 1-20 of 45 for drugs speaker:Danny Healy-Rae

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...villages, as they walked home because they were pushed out onto the road by briars that had not been cut. There is a massive increase in the number of deaths on our roads because of people using drugs. The Government does not want to monitor that and is not able to do so. The Killarney bypass has been left for 24 years with no progress and the traffic volume has increased. The...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to say a few words on this legislation. I welcome the debate but, sadly, I cannot support the Bill. I worry so much about the evidence regarding drugs and what they are doing to youngsters, lovely young boys and girls, and how families are broken up and people finish up in bad health. We can see that cannabis use has been on the rise for nearly two decades....

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... Again, I say that the Minister is encouraging the illicit sale of cigarettes. He may be dragging young people to do some other thing. Youngsters being youngsters will try something, and maybe even drugs that will be much worse and do more harm to our society and young population. I worry for parents today and into the future rearing children with all of the problems they face. I...

Youth Justice Strategy: Statements (21 Jun 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...Diocesan Youth Service, KDYS, is a magnificent organisation. It does so much work all around the county, in Castleisland, Killorglin and Killarney. It does massive work with young people. The drugs issue is something that is prevalent even in every small parish now, and we must ensure that we help the Garda to combat this in whatever way we can. When it gets hold of young people, it...

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...from 11 counties, County Kerry being one of them. I am afraid of the Government setting up an assembly here, where there is no representative from a place as expansive as County Kerry, which has a drug problem. I am greatly worried that this is an orchestrated move to legalise drugs, instead of criminalising them. The story is bad enough as it is. They are in every small town and...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...there for them. I do not think it is there at present either. I am very disappointed about that because families were and are upset that their children will never be the same again. Antipsychotic drugs were pumped into them regardless of the problem they manifested, and no time was given to them. What happened was criminal. If it was any other place, I am sure the Garda would be...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Oct 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...appeared in south Kerry some months ago and now it is manifesting in north Kerry. My concern now is that this may be widespread throughout the country. Is it the policy of the HSE to just drug people up in order to calm them down or whatever? If that is so, I do not think it was right to do that. In south Kerry, a junior doctor was blamed, but now it is in north Kerry. People have...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: .... The other thing that I worry about is that young people will find them too expensive and they will go for some other diversion, such as smoking cannabis, which would lead them to taking drugs. That would be much worse than the cigarettes. We know the scourge of drugs and the problems that they create even in rural communities, small country villages and towns. The question people...

Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...He was convicted in this country with all the means, and I believe rightfully, that the Garda used. We must ensure that the Garda will be able to do its job into the future to convict murderers, drug lords and serious villains, and ensure that we assist the Garda in every way we can as legislators. There is the problem, however, of seeking to retain data from innocent people. I have...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...bring to justice druglords and criminal gangs. If the only way to deal with them is the Special Criminal Court, so be it. They have to be dealt with because our towns and villages are ravaged by drugs. The usual story now is that someone will walk up to you, not knowing you at all, and ask you if you want a bit of stuff. That is what is going on in all our towns and villages, even in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Jun 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1905. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the approval of the Vertex drug for children with cystic fibrosis who are being excluded from receiving this life changing drug at the moment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30756/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...regret what seems to have been happening in many instances, which I believe was going on beyond the numbers we have heard about since the report came out. It seems as though what happened was that drugs were pumped into these lovely children, which greatly changed their personalities. It slowed them down and could have had the effect of increasing their weight. Their personalities...

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...such as the production of breast milk, weight gain, being sleepy during the day and raised blood pressure. As boys and girls become men and women, they will always have little problems but pumping drugs into them is not the answer. We need more workers. The HSE said it had no senior consultant child psychiatrist. We need psychologists at the start as well. There are good people in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (18 Feb 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 248. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the human papillomavirus, HPV, vaccine is not covered by the drugs payment card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9056/21]

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have little to say on this but I support any measures taken to impede criminals, especially drug lords, who are dealing with massive sums of money. I support any means by which they can be apprehended, slowed down and got out of the scene, and I support taking their funds from them. One of the biggest issues we all have to deal with today concerns drugs and the amounts of money...

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the many gardaí, male and female, throughout this country who uphold law and order and carry out their duties, largely unarmed, in dangerous situations where they come across villains, thugs, drug lords and others involved in serious crime. I thank them for all that they do locally to help the elderly and people living alone and, in particular, for apprehending the villains that...

Illegal Drugs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have a small amount of time to talk about this very important matter. I thank Deputy Curran and the Fianna Fáil Party for giving us the opportunity to discuss the drugs problem because it is a fact that drugs are available in every town and small village in County Kerry. I am sorry that I have to admit it, but it is a fact. It is also a fact that we are losing the battle...

Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Oct 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...Bill. I compliment Deputy O'Callaghan on bringing it forward. We hear every day of knife crime and it is on the increase. We have to ask ourselves why. Many believe that it is because of drugs and that it is used by these villains who supply and are in command of drugs and who are destroying our communities. We hear so much of it every day. I know it will be difficult for the Garda...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Sep 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...something about it or to ask the Minister for Health to do something about it. He is doing things he was not asked to do such as giving people a third chance before they are arrested if they have drugs in their possession.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sentencing Policy (26 Jun 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...of so many Garda stations on both sides of Kenmare Bay has left the area unserviced, response times are not adequate and communities genuinely believe they are being exposed to the importation of drugs along this massive coastline. Every town and village in County Kerry is rife with drugs. How are they getting in? No one is being intercepted. There are many piers in the area, including...