Results 1-15 of 15 for drugs speaker:Fintan Warfield

Seanad: EU Regulations (Police Co-operation on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings): Motion (11 Apr 2024)

Fintan Warfield: ...collaboration and co-operation on international crime, are important. These gangs do not respect borders or states. With increasing enforcement against their activities, be it money laundering, drug dealing, people trafficking or smuggling, they have increasingly co-operated among themselves. Accordingly, co-operation with the EU is important and that is what the proposal entails. As I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Fintan Warfield: ...the city and to house parties as well. It is anecdotal, in fairness, but I feel that people are drinking more in house parties and it might be said that people have better opportunities to take drugs in private parties as well. We have lost 85% of nightclubs in the past 20 years. We have an opportunity to have harm reduction teams in these environments. The HSE is working at festivals...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: ...action plans, does the messaging include sexual minorities, trans folk and non-binary folk? Is there recognition in the action plans about sexual harassment, assault and violence in the context of drugs and alcohol use? My next question is geared towards our other guests in the room. Is there a sharing of best practices across the universities and the higher education institutions? Ms...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Dec 2021)

Fintan Warfield: ...and 680,000 AIDS-related deaths. According to UNAIDS, around 65% of HIV infections globally were among sex workers and their clients, gay men and other men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, transgender people and their sexual partners. Even before the Covid pandemic hit, many of the populations most at risk were not being reached with HIV testing, prevention and care...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2020)

Fintan Warfield: ...and there was one Covid death. I want to salute the front-line staff whose bravery and dedication ensured Dublin outperformed even the best-case scenarios for Covid-19 mortality among homeless and drug-using populations. Covid is reshaping drug policies around the world. It is amplifying places where punitive policies are in place and it is fast-forwarding positive, more progressive...

Seanad: Crime: Statements (5 Dec 2019)

Fintan Warfield: ...personal and community instability, lowers the morale of both the police and communities, and instills despair. It does not matter to criminals whether victims and communities are left reeling from a drugs crisis, which claims lives on a regular and frightening basis, particularly in Dublin. It does not matter to criminals whether families have had their homes burgled, whether persons...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: ...the announcement made by the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, last week that a public programme in respect of pre-exposure prophylaxis, PrEP, would be rolled out by the HSE. PrEP is a drug that prevents the transmission of HIV. The State has a very poor record of combatting HIV and transmission rates have been rising. There were 500 new cases last year. I first raised this...

Seanad: Commencement Matters (Resumed): National Drugs Strategy (25 Sep 2018)

Fintan Warfield: ...the Chair for facilitating this conversation about harm reduction, and I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I commend the HSE and the Department of Health for their work in informing drug users about the safe use of drugs. It is proactive, realistic and life saving. According to a Eurobarometer poll in 2014, the use of psychoactive drugs among 15 to 24 year olds in Ireland is...

Seanad: An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (27 Mar 2018)

Fintan Warfield: ...Member of Seanad Éireann and the only Member of this House in his 20s, I think of what the eighth amendment has meant to my generation - a boat, a plane or a pill. The pills are as safe as any drug available in a club or pub or at a festival on a night out. These pills are the equivalent of rubbish recreational drugs and we are currently content with that form of health care for...

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ...a cost-benefit analysis of Truvada. Last week in the High Court Gilead lost an injunction case which will allow generic manufacturers to produce PrEP and provide it to Irish users, but the drug will need to be assessed by the HSE. My question is about if and when it will happen. As I indicated, 500 new cases of HIV are being loaded onto an already stretched health service every year....

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ...it results will not be returned or a determination made in the matter for between six and 12 months. A large proportion of men who have sex with men take PrEP and imported generic versions of the drug to stay safe. The HSE does not provide clinical support or information and no alternative contraceptive is available that is as effective in preventing HIV. Customs and Excise are starting...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Blood Donations (8 Feb 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ...from a positive community engagement and discussion.What struck me about the event was that members of the gay community spoke publicly and took ownership of a whole range of issues, from Grindr and drugs to sex and chemsex. Those in attendance wanted to feel more empowered in their sexuality. They came together and it gave them the confidence to speak out and take responsibility,...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ...by the World Health Organization. Currently, only one medication has been approved for use as PrEP which is marketed under the name of Truvada, and it is a combination of two antiretroviral drugs. It is also used for HIV treatment in combination with other antiretroviral drugs. Taken daily, PrEP reduces a person's risk of contracting HIV by more than 99%. In light of the permanent ban...

Seanad: Convictions for Certain Sexual Offences (Apology and Exoneration) Bill 2016: Second Stage (1 Feb 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ...lesbians and gay men left the State because of that air of criminality? We still do not seem to consider the consequences of criminalisation. Take, for example, the individual who is addicted to drugs and dealt with in the justice rather than the health system, which plays into the hands of individuals who seek to marginalise and feel comfortable in calling someone a...

Seanad: Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (18 Oct 2016)

Fintan Warfield: ...that young people are coming out in greater numbers, engaging in LGBT community services, seeking peer to peer support, sexual health support, mental health support and support for those misusing drugs and alcohol. The LGBT community, BeLonGTo and ShoutOut are engaging with young people, empowering them and building a sense of their being part of the LGBT community earlier than ever. In...