Results 1-20 of 49 for drugs speaker:Jackie Cahill

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

Jackie Cahill: .... Greater penalties must be imposed on people who carry knives in public places. Anyone carrying a knife is travelling with menace and has evil intentions. We need to put greater resources into tackling our drugs problem. Gangs are making vast amounts of money out of dealing in drugs and doing irreparable damage to our young people and our society. Drugs are an evil cancer within...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2023)

Jackie Cahill: ...past 15 years. One in ten community pharmacies, mainly in rural areas, is loss-making. This figure will increase unless investment is made. Administrative burdens associated with the community drugs scheme, the ongoing issue of medicine supply challenges and the underutilisation by the Government of our pharmacies' unique skillset has led to burnout in the profession. Community...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (15 Jun 2023)

Jackie Cahill: 282. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to review the fees that pharmacies receive from the State for all State drug schemes before the end of June 2023; if he will engage with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28977/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Jackie Cahill: 626. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which pregnant people with Hyperemesis Gravidarum may obtain the drug cariban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6684/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Feb 2023)

Jackie Cahill: 367. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug romosozumab will shortly be regulated by the Health Products Regulatory Authority in Ireland and be made available on the drug payment scheme and to medical card holders, given that this drug is used to treat osteoporosis in many countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5689/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Dec 2022)

Jackie Cahill: ...that the lack of medicines in the Twenty-six Counties is due to the amounts reimbursed by the HSE. I will cite one example given to me by a pharmacist yesterday, that of phenergan, a psychiatric drug. The reimbursement for that drug in our jurisdiction is €2.08 while in Northern Ireland it is €8.07. Manufacturers are making economic decisions not to supply us with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Crime Prevention (12 Oct 2022)

Jackie Cahill: ...also problems with anti-social behaviour in town centres, including Ballina, Nenagh and Clonmel. I have had numerous complaints in the recent past about anti-social behaviour. Our battle against drugs is the greatest challenge facing modern society. I want to see more Garda resources being put in place to tackle this scourge on modern society. I am not here to criticise gardaí....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Jackie Cahill: ..., if given by a vet, would be counter-productive to what the Department is trying to achieve. If vets give the full possible coverage that farmers need for the year they would be providing drugs the farmers might not need depending on various circumstances. To say that vets will give 12-month prescriptions that will help to reduce resistance in animals is a fallacy and it is wrong. If...

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Jackie Cahill: ...enough enforcement. If teenagers and young adults can tell us where to go to find people supplying tablets, or this, that or the other, surely that information must be available to the Garda. Drugs were only freely available in major urban areas before, but they are now at every crossroads. It is the greatest scourge in modern society. We see instances of young people running up a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Mental health is an issue that we discuss frequently in this House, and rightly so. Drug use and addiction are two of the major contributory factors to mental health problems. In north Tipperary, we have a voluntary organisation, CARMHA Ireland, which offers a vital counselling service to a large number of clients. It is falling between two stools and is failing to get funding from the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (23 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 581. To ask the Minister for Health if hormone treatments which are considered high-tech scripts will be covered either by the medical card or drug payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56939/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: In his budget speech, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, allocated €30 million for new drugs to ensure our citizens have access to the best high-tech drugs available globally. I have made the case that Epidiolex should be reimbursed by the HSE numerous times in the House. It is a life-saving cannabis-based drug that can prevent serious seizures in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (3 Nov 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 150. To ask the Minister for Health if epidiolex has been passed for reimbursement by the HSE following the additional allocation in Budget 2022 to cater for new drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53467/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (21 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: 137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans that are in place to reduce the number of drugs offences; the number of gardaí in County Tipperary currently assigned to drugs duty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51426/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: ...practice including practice protocols, the mix of work accepted and performed in the practice, the materials employed by practitioners in the practice, and the sale and supply of prescription drugs in direct contravention of the animal remedies regulations, section 28(4) together with Schedule 1, Part 1, paragraphs 1, 2 and 3. In lay terms what that means is that we have lay people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: .... McHugh. The regulatory body has no control over the ownership of practices. Suppose the owner of a practice is buying veterinary medicines and supplying veterinary medicines that are prescribed drugs and which, I read this earlier, clearly is in contravention of the animal remedies regulations. Does he consider what is happening and what the VCI has allowed to happen to be legal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: ...been discussing animal medicines, in particular the availability of non-prescriptive animal medicines, and the worry about resistance among animals and, more importantly, the danger of resistance to drugs for human use, as well as the over-usage of those drugs. The Department’s view is that it wants to regulate the availability of those remedies very significantly. We now have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Veterinary Practice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: When I talk about regulation and human health, I am talking principally about the regulation of the supply and sale of drugs. It is clear to me lay owners are outside the VCI's remit and that it has no power to regulate them. I can give an instance where a lay operator owned a practice and the vet he had working there left and that practice continued to sell drugs even after that vet had...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: ...in the criteria for carers and the money for housing adaptations will be important for families who want to try to keep senior family members at home and look after them there. The €30 million extra for high-tech drugs is most welcome. I ask the Minister of State to take this back to the Minister for Health. I and others have lobbied for a drug called Epilex, an essential drug...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (6 Oct 2021)

Jackie Cahill: If a farmer has a cross-compliance inspection and has drugs for which he cannot account with respect to their source and a prescription, he would be subject to a severe penalty.