Results 1-20 of 26 for drugs speaker:Carol Nolan

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

Carol Nolan: ...personal use. I accept that we should have a lenient approach to persons in the throes of addiction but effectively removing all legal sanction for possession of what remains a very dangerous drug is something I cannot support. As a study carried out by researchers from the Department of Psychiatry, RCSI and Beaumont Hospital found, cannabis use during youth is of great concern as the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...going missing or running away from home or a care placement despite the fact that some have an intellectual disability, have suffered prior sexual abuse or neglect, or have engaged in alcohol or drug misuse. Unfortunately, this frankly terrifying and explosive report was lost in the media noise generated by the RTÉ payments controversy. It has received nothing like the kind of...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...this shameful episode. Some of it has been accurate. There is a lack of resources, and a city has been effectively abandoned to a criminal class. There is a growing sense that Dublin has become lawless and drug-infested, despite the best efforts of An Garda Síochána. Some of the commentary, however, has been nothing short of pathetic and, indeed, at times, potentially...

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...Group on bringing it forward. In particular, I support the call to increase the number of gardaí in the State to 16,000 by 2028. In May this year, I was informed that the Laois-Offaly divisional drug unit of An Garda Síochána has the lowest number of Garda members assigned to it compared to every other county and Garda division in the State. I have raised this in the...

Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...offence. This balance is correct because it returns the primary responsibility to the adult in the situation. We know from bitter experience that some children are being used to transport drugs from one location to another in this country. Indeed, as the findings of the national prevalence study show, a minority, or one in eight, children involved in the Garda diversion programme fit...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...xed;ochána, let us have one that can do its job in the most effective way possible. I will focus on the issue of community safety, which is a growing concern for many people. Antisocial behaviour is at all-time record levels. Drug use and intimidation are rampant in some communities. The elderly feel exposed and terrified. Farmers in isolated areas feel threatened by the lack of...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens' Assembly (7 Mar 2023)

Carol Nolan: 140. To ask the Taoiseach the remuneration or expenses the chair of the Citizens' Assembly on drugs will be entitled to. [11091/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Feb 2022)

Carol Nolan: 318. To ask the Minister for Health if financial support is provided for the purchase of medication for hyperemesis gravidarum; if assistance is provided through the medical card scheme or the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8934/22]

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Carol Nolan: .... The society has been advocating for the provision of €5 million to public hospitals to reduce the cost of car parking charges for cancer patients. It is also calling for a reduction in the drugs payment scheme cap to a maximum payment of €100 a month, and a maximum payment of €72 a month for single-headed households. Those changes need to be taken on board. It...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: Foetal anticonvulsant syndrome is a condition that affects children born to women who were prescribed the anti-epileptic drug Epilim during pregnancy. Children exposed to this drug in the womb have a higher chance of genetic malformations compared to the general population. An additional 40% of children exposed to Epilim experience developmental delays and have a three to five times greater...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: .... These measures will go some way to ensuring that no family will be affected by Epilim in the future. I also want to point out that it is very concerning that approximately 1,600 women take this drug in Ireland, yet an Epilepsy Ireland survey in 2020 found that one in six women are still unaware that the drug can in some cases cause serious birth defects and learning and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Sep 2021)

Carol Nolan: 1327. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reduce the drugs payment scheme threshold to €100 per month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42464/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 May 2021)

Carol Nolan: ..., a number of threats are posed to the agricultural merchants sector. One of these is an EU requirement to come into force in January whereby all veterinary medicinal products, including antiparasitic drugs, will only be dispensed on foot of veterinary prescriptions. In addition, an EU directive which allowed for the exemption and maintenance of non-prescription status in respect of some...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade (17 Feb 2021)

Carol Nolan: 136. To ask the Minister for Finance if data is available on the amount of illegal drugs seized from persons entering and leaving the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7888/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Feb 2021)

Carol Nolan: ...to the finding that children under 16 years of age considering gender reassignment are unlikely to be sufficiently mature enough to provide informed consent to be prescribed puberty-blocking drugs and medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8880/21]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Veterinary Medicines (3 Nov 2020)

Carol Nolan: I would like to see the scientific evidence because I am not sure where it is coming from. Agricultural merchants are highly trained and skilled professionals who have been dispensing drugs since 2006. They also provide much-needed employment in rural towns where there is little or no employment. In my constituency we have Midland Veterinary in Tullamore, Portarlington and Edenderry and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Sep 2020)

Carol Nolan: .... There is absolutely no reason this should be allowed to happen. The EU justification for the new rules is that only vets have enough knowledge and skill to prescribe certain antimicrobial drugs but this is patent nonsense. Thousands of highly trained and skilled agricultural merchants have been dispensing these drugs since 2006 and there is no solid evidence to suggest why this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (15 Sep 2020)

Carol Nolan: 805. To ask the Minister for Health when the changes under budget 2020 to reduce the maximum expenditure of €124 on prescription drugs will be reduced to €114 in view of the fact that this reduction was to come into effect on 1 September 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24062/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (8 May 2019)

Carol Nolan: 733. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding and support being offered to the Midland Regional Drug and Alcohol Task Force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18865/19]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Carol Nolan: ...foetus; and (b) that an anesthetic or analgesic is available in order to minimize and/or alleviate pain to the foetus.(5) Where it is intended that a termination of pregnancy be performed using abortioninducing drugs, the person who supplies the drugs to the woman intending to have the termination of pregnancy shall, orally and in person, inform the woman of the following:(a) that it may...