Results 1-20 of 29 for drugs speaker:Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...face more severe penalties. If she is saying this, we need to pay attention. She revealed that studies have shown high levels of non-compliance in terms of speeding, mobile phone use, drink and drugs. This is unacceptable. Community-based road safety groups from across the country have said the RSA is not fit for purpose. I am raising this because I have a huge issue with it. The...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...roads and from 80 km/h to 60 km/h for local roads. It is important. We must all be mindful that we have a part to play. Introducing much-needed legislative reforms on penalty points, mandatory drug testing and speed limits will provide a robust response to this by targeting some of the most dangerous behaviours. I wish to ask the Minister of State, as did previous speakers, about...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Sep 2023)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 988. To ask the Minister for Health the considerations that his Department is giving to the inclusion of the drugs saxenda and ozempic, both now recognised as valuable medications in the treatment of obesity, to the drugs payment scheme or medical card scheme for non-diabetic patients; if there are plans to widen the prescription of saxenda and ozempic to medical card holders with a BMI of...

Youth Justice Strategy: Statements (21 Jun 2023)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...can only say that they do a marvellous job. They work hard. Unfortunately, there are crime rates among our young people and we can change that. We can work and invest in communities, outreach, drug programmes and family resource centres to give young people a chance. I spoke to the Minister of State about a community hub on the Tullow Road, which needs a building. There will be two...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Jun 2023)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 1147. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to add an illness to the long-term illness scheme, medical card or drugs payment scheme for medications for an illness (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27377/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Jun 2023)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 1149. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to add an illness to the long- term illness scheme under the terms of mental illness, medical card or drugs payment scheme for medications for an illness (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27380/23]

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

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 664. To ask the Minister for Health the considerations his Department is giving to the inclusion of the drugs saxenda and ozempic, both now recognised as valuable medications in the treatment of obesity, to the drugs payment scheme for non-diabetic patients; if there are plans to widen the prescription of saxenda and ozempic to medical card holders with a BMI of greater than 35 as a...

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: It is welcome that we are bringing together a Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use. We must find a better way to meet the diverse health needs of people who use drugs and, at the same time, explore ways to prevent the harmful impact of drugs on children, families and communities. I have seen families torn apart, where perhaps a child or someone else in the family has started to take drugs and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (13 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...help those in long-term unemployment, who are disadvantaged or who find it impossible to get mainstream work to have a job in their local communities. They provide childcare help, elderly care and drug rehabilitation services. The €5 extra for CE scheme workers in the budget was a modest increase and as a result it is difficult to find people to participate in the scheme. I have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Oct 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 390. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time HSE-employed drug and alcohol outreach workers in counties Carlow and Kilkenny in each of the years of 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49353/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Jun 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 866. To ask the Minister for Health if a new drug (details supplied) will be prescribed for all those with long-Covid regardless of medical card status; his views on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34215/22]

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...which can play an integral part in tackling the crisis. Other businesses have solutions too. People are worried about whether they are doing enough. People have a genuine fear about the drug being trialled. They are too scared to get the vaccine. It is not that they are being selfish, but that there is genuine fear. I know we are trying to provide information that the vaccine is...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (9 Dec 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...for girls who did not avail of it when offered in secondary school; (18) Deputy Maurice Quinlivan - to discuss if, and how, the Minister for Justice plans to address the delay in court sittings of criminal cases involving drug seizures in Limerick; (19) Deputy Jim O'Callaghan - to discuss the benefit of the Government purchasing rights to the book Lost Livesto commemorate all those killed...

Public Health, Well-being and National Drugs Strategy: Statements (10 Sep 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...that he will work extremely hard and this has to be the focus. We all have to realise we all have to play a part and do what we can. All things have changed because of the coronavirus, even drug use. In June, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, EMCDDA, found an overall decline in some forms of drug use in Europe during the first three months of the pandemic....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (16 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 186. To ask the Minister for Health when funding and approval for the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab will become available for persons with bladder cancer which has migrated to their lungs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16442/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 1136. To ask the Minister for Health if approval will be given to the immunotherapy drug osimertinib; if a timeline can be provided for its availability for lung cancer patients; and if not, the reason. [15318/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: 668. To ask the Minister for Health when funding and approval for the immunotherapy drug Osimertinib will become available for persons with lung cancer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13747/20]

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (11 Dec 2019)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...and there is an ongoing review. I ask the Minister of State to update me on the review. These schemes are in various communities across the country and they provide childcare, elderly care and drug rehabilitation services. The supervisors are a vital part of ensuring that these schemes run effectively. We, in Fianna Fáil, are acutely cognisant of the deep sense of frustration...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Dec 2019)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...of a community. We all need to compliment them and say, "Well done." So many other serious issues have been raised today, such as those relating to women in abusive circumstances, violence and drugs, and we must work on them. Nevertheless, when there are great organisations such as the Community Games, with so many volunteers, it is important that we recognise them and give them the...

Seanad: Illegal Drugs: Motion (13 Nov 2019)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I second the motion. Across this country, lives are being devastated by drug use, drug addiction, drug dealing and drug-related deaths. This Government has not invested the correct amount of funding to fight the war on drugs and the result has been a staggering rise in the consumption of drugs, addiction, social breakdown, drug-related deaths and tragedies. The situation is so bad that we...