Results 1-20 of 51 for drugs speaker:Bríd Smith

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (9 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 1463. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the long waiting lists to access the HIV preventative drug PrEP for those who cannot afford to obtain it privately or via the drug payment scheme; if there are plans to improve public access; if so, if he will outline these plans and provide a timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14691/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (30 Nov 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...treatment medication tyvense; if he will acknowledge the impact the scarcity of this medication is having on people who are prescribed it, especially children with autism and ADHD, who without the drug are unable to go to school, function at home or have quality of life; if he will outline the steps he is taking to secure a regular and consistent supply of the medication and indicate when...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (1 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...prescribed medicinal cannabis products from an another state, specifically in relation to Article 75 of the Schengen Implementing Convention, which states that it is permissible to transport drugs and psychotropic substances needed as part of medical treatment if the person concerned has a certificate issued by a competent authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26688/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 663. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the drug vyepti (details supplied), following its completion of the approval process; if he will acknowledge that there are many migraine sufferers who are resistant to current drugs available and who are desperate to access this new drug in an effort to relieve their pain; the proposed timeline for the drug to be available to those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 302. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the reason exactly a GP cannot prescribe cariban on the drugs payment scheme; if he will acknowledge that the majority of women do not see a consultant until after 12 weeks of pregnancy and it is the case that a GP would be qualified to prescribe the drug and be automatically covered on the DPS; if he will clarify the reason that a GP...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 301. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clearly outline the process through which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain cariban under the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6374/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 303. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the number of cariban prescriptions that have been processed through the drugs payment scheme to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6376/23]

Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...of the Jesuit Order in Belvedere College visited my clinic during the week as a consequence of the revelations. He said they want to see a criminal investigation of paedophiles. As we have seen, if a drug dealer travelled across the world dealing drugs and accumulating money from it, Interpol would help the Irish police to follow them around and to build a case against them. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Sep 2022)

Bríd Smith: 510. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to make the drug evusheld available in Ireland given that it has been approved by the European Medicines Agency and is currently in use in Europe and America; the stage that these plans are at; when those who are immunosuppressed are likely have access to the drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46973/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 Jul 2022)

Bríd Smith: 823. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with the parents of children excluded from access to the cystic fibrosis drug Kaftrio as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36089/22]

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

Bríd Smith: 1443. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to 35 children with cystic fibrosis who are being denied access to the life-changing drug Kaftrio due to a new pricing dispute between an organisation (details supplied) and the HSE; his views on the fact that those with cystic fibrosis over the age of 12 years have access to the drug and it was also made available to 140...

Employment Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...for Finance, saying we must pick the low-hanging fruit first. Fine Gael has not stopped picking the low-hanging fruit. It is doing this with local employment schemes and it intends doing so with the local drugs task forces later this year. We really need to check ourselves and see what is going on here. The ideology that goes after the most vulnerable and the most marginalised is just...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2022 (20 Oct 2021)

Bríd Smith: 262. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the additional €6 million announced in Budget 2022 for the drugs strategy will go to the drug and alcohol task force drug projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51533/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 May 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...was mentioned in this House previously, cannot be exposed to Covid because their chances of dying are much more increased than for anybody else. Ms Rynne has had her vaccination but the type of drugs that she is on for the cancer stop the vaccination responding in the same way as it would for the Minister or me. There are other people out there in the same position. What are we going to...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...all over the world: — calls on the World Trade Organization (WTO) to allow all countries to choose to neither grant nor enforce patents and other intellectual property [rights] related to Covid-19 drugs, vaccines, diagnostics and other technologies for the duration of the pandemic; — mandates the Government to demand that European Union policy is changed so as it votes at...

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

Bríd Smith: 1343. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to a medical card holder that is prescribed a drug (details supplied) prior to undertaking a colonoscopy; the actions a medical card holder should take in these circumstances; if there are alternative drugs available under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33298/20]

Covid-19 (Measures to Protect Victims of Domestic Violence): Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...bailout, when the then Minister for Finance referred to picking the low-hanging fruit. In my area certainly, the first and the hardest cuts came to the family resource centres, centres for children, drug addiction centres and alcohol centres, and they have never been fully reinstated. The community sector, which had an eye on this problem and knew who the children were and was able to...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...of this Act. Has this legislation, and the emergency measures in it, succeeded in stopping gangland crime? Has it broken down the cartel of guns and the wealth that flows from that? Has it smashed the drugs trade, the rock on which these gangs are based? No, it has not. If this Act is the answer to anything, then is the question not how do we stop gangland crime? If we want to...

Coronavirus: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...called Gilead Sciences, that has a base in Cork. Ironically, Gilead is also the name of the spooky medieval country in The Handmaid's Talebut apparently Gilead Sciences is developing an anti-viral drug. Intellectual property rights are important because in the privatisation of medicine and cures, intellectual property rights can be held onto by a company without being shared with the...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...Ireland where this is a problem. The Bill is welcome and if it gets past Second Stage, we will probably table amendments to it. The fact that children as young as 12 are becoming involved in drug distribution networks is very frightening. It is particularly frightening for the communities affected by it. The one thing I would like to focus on concerns the socio-economic issues in...