Results 1-20 of 25 for drugs speaker:James Lawless

Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

James Lawless: ...questions have been asked by people in this Chamber and by the family and others. Was he a confidential informant? Were there other reasons? Was discretion correctly applied in terms of drugs charges? The family deserve to know the answer to those questions and have those traversed in a public open forum, if necessary, of an adversarial nature, where they can be cross-examined and...

Youth Justice Strategy: Statements (21 Jun 2023)

James Lawless: ...beyond the strategy to other issues in the sphere of youth justice, the justice committee, which I chair, published a comprehensive report recently on the decriminalisation of certain substances - drugs - with a greater focus on cannabis but with a variety of substances in mind. It was signed off on all-party basis and many of its recommendations are with the citizens' assembly for...

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

James Lawless: ...of decriminalisation, which is already in being. Last year at Electric Picnic, we saw substances being tested for the first time. We see the medical cannabis programme being advanced and rolled out. We see the drugs Acts differentiating between the quantity of substance and the type of substance a person may have and the actions which are taken as a result. We need to accelerate the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

James Lawless: ...in criminal proceedings; to provide for certificates of evidence relating to the receipt, handling, transmission or storage of certain items, and for that purpose to provide for amendments to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1984 and the Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Act 2014; and for those and other purposes to amend the Criminal Evidence Act 1992, the Criminal...

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

James Lawless: 471. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that hormone replacement therapy has been taken off the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44408/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Sanctions for the Possession of Certain Amounts of Drugs for Personal Use: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

James Lawless: ...smoothly. I look forward to what I think is going to be a very interesting discussion. The topic is an examination of the current approach to sanctions for the possession of certain amount of drugs for personal use. It is a little bit of a long-winded way to say decriminalisation. We are examining whether the current approach of sanctions, including legal sanctions, work...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Sanctions for the Possession of Certain Amounts of Drugs for Personal Use: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

James Lawless: In order that we are all on the same page, how does Mr. Minish define plant-based drugs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Sanctions for the Possession of Certain Amounts of Drugs for Personal Use: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

James Lawless: ...in a second time if they wish. Before that, I will take the opportunity to put my own questions. We have touched on this matter already but something that often comes to mind is that there is a drug which many enjoy socially, and have it with friends and family, at licensed premises and at home. A small minority struggle with it and have it as a demon. That drug, of course, is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: 868. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide children with cystic fibrosis with the drug kaftrio; if not, the reasons for not providing this drug; if there are any plans in the future to provide this drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34274/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proceeds of Crime (Gross Human Rights Abuses) Bill 2020: Discussion (21 Jun 2022)

James Lawless: ...abuse. I would like to understand and flesh that out a little. If people were engaged in human trafficking and then using those trafficked people in the commission of further crimes, be that drug distribution or other activities, is the relevant fact that they are incidental to the crime? Is it incidental to the offence in this regard that the perpetrators are treating people in a way...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)

James Lawless: ...probation officer, from the Probation Service; Mr. Richard Guiney, CEO, and Mr. Gerard Farrell, director of operations, from Dublin Town; Ms Carol Hyland, project leader, and Mr. Thomas McCarthy, drug and alcohol youth worker, from Core Youth Services; Ms Molly Joyce, acting executive director, and Ms Sarahjane McCreery, senior policy and research officer, from Irish Penal Reform Trust;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Feb 2022)

James Lawless: 689. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the use of a drug (details supplied) to help with a condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7629/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Jul 2021)

James Lawless: 367. To ask the Minister for Health if the use of the drug zolgensma will be examined in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31113/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (3 Dec 2020)

James Lawless: 344. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug patisiran will continue to be made available in the case of a person (details supplied). [40907/20]

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

James Lawless: ...colleagues and I commend Deputy John Curran on bringing this motion forward. It is a very important motion, as highlighted last weekend by nine former Ministers of State who had responsibility for drugs and who called for urgent and further action on this scourge, which all Members see in their communities. While it is very much an urban issue and while Dublin is at the heart of it, it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Trials (11 Jul 2019)

James Lawless: 463. To ask the Minister for Health if a drug investigation or approval is in place for RTA 408 which may be an effective treatment for Friedreich's ataxia (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30501/19]

Local Drug and Alcohol Task Forces: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2019)

James Lawless: ...motion and concur with my colleagues who have spoken. I will focus on the issue of criminalisation. Previous contributors have spoken about the numbers and the funds needed to reduce the damage drugs and alcohol can do to individuals, communities and the State in terms of the resources spent in combating their influence. There is no doubt about the damage that can be and is being...

Bail (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2018)

James Lawless: ...in section 2(a) of the Act. Judicial discretion does not always work. We know that sometimes if a court may do something it often does not do it. We need look no further than section 15A of the Misuse of Drugs Act for a comparison. The latter was an attempt to introduce mandatory minimum sentencing for serious offences relating to drugs and the intent to supply. There was provision...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (20 Feb 2018)

James Lawless: 327. To ask the Minister for Health if the recent decision to remove Versatis 5% patch from the drug payment scheme and medical card schemes will be reconsidered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8235/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (16 Jan 2018)

James Lawless: 722. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on the reimbursement of a drug (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54581/17]