Results 1-20 of 41 for drugs speaker:Victor Boyhan

Seanad: Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (29 Jun 2016)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister and the Bill. I also thank the two Senators who tabled the amendments for setting out their stall, or their case. The bottom line is that drugs are the scourge of all communities. They know no bounds. I accept that while there are major problems with drugs in certain deprived areas, there are also drugs in very affluent areas. Cocaine is to be found on the high...

Seanad: Illegal Drugs: Motion (13 Nov 2019)

Victor Boyhan: ...of State. I have always found her to be a decent person who is empathetic and supportive on this issue. She has always taken a responsible lead against sometimes stiff opposition. Not all drug users are addicts. We need to keep remembering that. In every walk of life, there is misuse of drugs and of drink. Alcohol is a terrible drug and a scourge on our society, as are drugs, and...

Seanad: Controlled Drugs and Harm Reduction Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Victor Boyhan: ...xd3; Domhnaill, Bacik, Nash and Humphreys. They are the people who considered this to be good legislation. They gave it thought and signed it. I would not have signed if I believed that it would be a charter for drug pushers. That is not what it is about. Drug dealers need to be taken on because they are criminals who are destroying people's lives, communities and families. Let us...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...I would like to think we could have some engagement within a matter of weeks. I might as well tell the Minister that I am committed to pursuing litigation with a group of people with regard to the drug trials. The State will clearly have to be involved in this. I believe in mediation, consultation, engagement and collaborative approaches. As a result of this business, my personal...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...vaccines”. Amendment No. 24 reads: “records of any vaccine trials in which the relevant person was a research subject”.This is an area I know quite a lot about. We know, and it is a fact, that these drug trials took place. They were the subject of a very comprehensive statement by the Taoiseach when he was the Minister for Health and Children all those years ago....

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)

Victor Boyhan: ...the participation of all parties and Senators. A story appeared in a number of national newspapers yesterday and has been echoed in the media today. I refer to the scandal of the historical drug trials that took place on children in State care in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The former Ministers Ms Mary Harney and Deputy Micheál Martin initiated a number of statutory...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...We have had engagements with various representatives from the thalidomide action group both in the Dáil and Seanad. It is a travesty and it is difficult to believe that it was in 1961 that this drug was found to have caused birth defects. I was born in May 1961. I thought when I was writing a few notes today that strangely that is the year I was born and that I was lucky that my...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2024)

Victor Boyhan: ...according to today's edition of The Irish Times. That is disappointing and a pity. It should also be remembered that a very substantial number of children in this State were the subject of drug trials. That matter has never been resolved. There is ongoing litigation and correspondence. I am very much involved in that, so I know about it from personal experience. We need to address...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...engagement with GSK, which would have been welcome originally. I cannot quite understand that negotiation. We know what happened. There is no ambiguity as to what happened in respect of the drug trials. As regards amendment No. 36, the Minister might consider running a parallel process. He did not really respond to that in the context of the illegal vaccine trials. Here we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Veterinary Medicines: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...is applicable to responsible persons, RPs.? I think it is at a very high level and of a very high standard. I know people who have done this training and who can administer these antiparasitic drugs, and so on. That is the issue. I am conscious that we cannot be seen to be held up in terms of vested interests, be they veterinarians, distributors or otherwise. It is important we give a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...It was disappointing that we could not secure any support from the Government Members of this House for amendments relating to two or three issues I will single out today, the first of which is the drug trials that were carried out illegally on children within State care. In many cases, they are still alive and cannot understand why they have been denied some form of justice. Second,...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...children were in State care and where the State or its agents were in loco parentisthey had obligations. We know of extensive investigations and litigation, to which I am party, on these alleged drug trials. We know that the Taoiseach, when he was Minister for Health, commissioned Dr. Kiely, the then Chief Medical Officer, to do a preliminary investigation. We subsequently have sourced...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Jun 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...when you try to summarise what occurred. I spoke to a journalist this afternoon who asked me about some of the key issues. This is about those who experienced racism, those who were subjected to drug trials and those who spent fewer than six months in an institution. None of these people are covered or getting any redress. There are many good aspects to this Bill, but when we...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...racing industry. It is an extraordinarily interesting report and I am one of a number of members on the joint Oireachtas committee. The report has 11 strong recommendations dealing with doping, drug tracing in horses, corporate governance issues and also the composition of a board. Given the very significant amount of public funds that go into this body, it is critically important. It...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Veterinary Medicines (24 Nov 2020)

Victor Boyhan: ...did not manage to complete. This is an ongoing issue, which I am sure has exercised the Minister's officials, who were at that meeting. This EU regulation will restrict the sale of antiparasitic drugs for livestock to farmers by making it illegal for anyone other than a vet to prescribe to them. These drugs are routine medicines given to animals to kill parasites such as gut worm, liver...

Seanad: Citizens Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...in response. None of them were negative and they were cross-party and non-party. They raised the issue of the significant involvement of councillors with the community policing forums, local drugs task forces and so on. All of the responses were very positive. They were not responses of the "not in my back yard" variety. I would not tolerate that or advocate for it. These are people...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...homes. I raise it also in the context of the legislation that has been passed in the Dáil precluding children who spent less than six months in the homes from accessing the scheme. We know these drug trials took place on very young children, some of whom were no more than a few weeks' old. All of those children will be excluded under the scheme. I challenge colleagues today, as I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...a mother who stayed in an institution for one night, a child who spent four months in an institution will receive no redress. We have to see that in the context of the now established knowledge of drug trials that took place in care. I will finish on this point. I would like to think that Members of this House will exercise the responsibility and opportunity we have to revise...

Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2016)

Victor Boyhan: .... It is not just a catch-all situation because people have recourse to the law. Communities across this city, county and country are ravaged by crime and criminal activity, be it with regard to drugs, smuggling, prostitution or a whole range of crimes. Many people are hooked into crime who do not give their full consent or who are not even fully aware how they are hooked into criminal...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...children. We also know the outcomes that affect children for the rest of their lives. To exclude them, therefore, is not acceptable. and cannot be allowed to stand. The other concern I raise today is the issue of drug trials and GlaxoSmithKline. I was in an institution where these drug trials took place. They are not in dispute. They are documented and published in the British...