Results 1-20 of 273 for drugs speaker:Richard Bruton

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Bruton: 628. To ask the Minister for Health the regime for sharing for prescriptions and for drugs refund from the start of 2024. [42417/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: 277. To ask the Minister for Health the threshold for drug refund which is now in place and if the level of this threshold is under review. [41993/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Cards (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Bruton: I can understand the Minister's point about GP card and the drugs refund covering a lot of cases but medical appliances are a different situation. People who do not qualify for a medical card face huge uncertainty in accessing needed medical appliances for certain conditions. If the entire system cannot be reviewed, would it be possible that medical appliances would get some form of a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Misuse of Drugs (18 Apr 2023)

Richard Bruton: 980. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the growing use of fast gas as a drug within communities; and whether her Department and the gardaí have a strategy to address it. [17333/23]

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

Richard Bruton: 586. To ask the Minister for Health if a drug (details supplied) can be prescribed by a GP, or only by a consultant; and if so, if this has resulted in very low usage of a medication of considerable efficacy. [6581/23]

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

Richard Bruton: 265. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been taken to remove the lanriotide chemotherapy drug from the drugs refund scheme; if so, the reason for this; and the notice that is being given to users in order that they can explore other options which would be covered. [6267/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Drug Rehabilitation Projects (4 May 2022)

Richard Bruton: 320. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the acute problems in reinstating important services for rehabilitating drug dependent young person's due to the lack of community employment youth workers such as in a case (details supplied); and if she will consider changing current community employment regulations to allow key support...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Bruton: 86. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way that the new policy approach for areas of severe disadvantage, which are suffering the ravages of drug dealing, has been progressing to date; the indicators that are being used to establish the success of the approach; if there are any early findings; and the further initiatives that are planned in her Department or...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug Dealing (17 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: 150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way that the new policy approach for areas of severe disadvantage which are suffering the ravages of drug dealing has been progressing to date; the indicators being used to establish the success of the approach; if there are any early findings; and the further initiatives that are planned in her Department or across...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a medication universally recommended for acute morning sickness (details supplied) is not covered under the GMS or the drug refund scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8452/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Bruton: 144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the change in the rate of drug offences recorded in the Dublin metropolitan area in the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57742/21]

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

Richard Bruton: 149. To ask the Minister for Health the date from which the payment under the drug refund scheme will be reduced from €114 to €100. [53456/21]

The National Youth Justice Strategy 2021-2027 and Supporting Community Safety: Statements (6 Oct 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...to one on delivery. The outcomes measured could include recidivism, breaking the grip of gangs on vulnerable communities and instances of certain types of offence, for example, knife crime and drug dealing. The focus on process is overwhelming the targets that we need to deliver. Wider community commitment to supporting the police is crucial. We do not have a good track record of...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Richard Bruton: The truth is that carbon dioxide is toxic to our globe. It is a drug and it is slowly killing our planet. This is a reality. It may not emit fumes. It may not give out poison to people who may contact it. What is sure, as night follows day, is that it is killing our planet and that our society is hooked on it. Ireland is not a small country that should be taking modest steps. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Bruton: 61. To ask the Minister for Health his latest assessment of trends in the use of illegal drugs in Dublin city and county; and the success of strategies in place. [28089/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Crime Prevention (3 Jun 2021)

Richard Bruton: ...to report on whether there is any progress in, as she rightly says, the disruption of crime gangs that are a real problem? In the prevention of young people getting sucked into the backwash of the drugs trade and in the setting up a structured community policing for those three neighbourhoods, do we have concrete evidence of new resources and methods in place?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 May 2021)

Richard Bruton: 485. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the approach being developed for intensive engagement to divert young persons from the risk of slipping into the drugs environment in pilot areas known as green towns; and the experience of successes from such projects to date. [27557/21]

Community Safety and Preventing Crime: Statements (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Bruton: ...where community safety is not the prevailing mood of what people experience on the ground. The reality is that there is too much impact of gangs. Their influence is too wide. The abuse of drugs is too widespread. Its impact in diverting young people away from other opportunities is clear. The intimidation and fear that is felt by families is a real problem undermining the attempts not...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...there are 29 new medicines and 29 new indications that have been committed to at a cost of €220 million, and that 3,000 patients will benefit. That has committed the allocation for 2019 for new drugs so it probably does await budgetary consideration of how that scheme can be extended into the future. That is the information I have here but I will convey the Deputy's concern to the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2019)

Richard Bruton: The Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, has recognised that we need a comprehensive response to the challenge posed by drugs. She has been driving a strategy to deliver that response. As the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Flanagan, stated yesterday, this issue of organised crime, which is at the heart of the drugs business, cannot be resolved with a Garda response alone....