Results 1-8 of 8 for drugs speaker:Alice-Mary Higgins

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (16 May 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...of the Scheme should be extended; (g) whether payment rates under the Scheme should be increased; (h) whether assistance or support such as reparations could be offered to those who were subject to drug trials; (i) whether funds from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in Ireland, could be allocated or reallocated to provide assistance, support or...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...It is a concern if the community services and the very often vulnerable persons who use them are unable to access adequate heating. The energy subsidy is very much needed in those areas. One example is the drugs and alcohol task forces, which are only now seeing their funding restored to the level it was at back in 2006 but face considerable additional costs that never existed at that...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: No, we could not get the names of other persons, but we could certainly have information in respect of the records of a vaccine trial. For example, if particular drugs or vaccines were bring trialled or developed. It is one thing to state in a record that a person was vaccinated and another thing to say a person was part of a vaccine trial and to outline the stage of development of the...

Seanad: TRIPS Waiver: Motion (15 Dec 2021)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...disproved last spring. It was disproved again this week when 100 specific factories were identified that could be producing within three months. The idea that incentives and innovation would be killed does not stand up. We heard that argument about sharing HIV drugs and it did not stand up. In fact, we are not using the world's scientists to innovate and build on what we have done. We...

Seanad: Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2020)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...the search for a vaccine and treatment, it is very important that public research has a role. We have seen the situation in the United States where, deplorably, I believe, there was an attempt to purchase a monopoly on a drug that could provide treatment in respect of Covid-19. We know there are projects such as the people's vaccine under way, and wonderful initiatives such as the one...

Seanad: Business of Seanad: Motion (21 Jan 2020)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ..., peace, decent work, international solidarity and a rights-based approach.My colleagues in the Civil Engagement group have championed, in particular, on issues such as disability, Traveller rights, drug reform and migration. The Seanad is not simply a space to highlight and bring debates and to frame, often in a positive and constructive way together, the debates on those issues, it is...

Seanad: Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It has been outlined that there are serious animal welfare concerns in respect of the use of drugs in the industry, apart from the distorting of the industry and the other effects that my colleague has outlined. I indicate my support for amendment No. 8d in particular. In section 27(3), I am concerned that at the moment it sets out that:Where a sample from a greyhound is found to have...

Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (1 Feb 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...Bill to move this issue a little further along, but I am not sure if I will. The Minister of State spoke to it earlier, but could she clarify exactly if it is now the case that over-the-counter drugs will definitely be available without a prescription to medical card holders?While it is available without a prescription, I suggest that medical card holders would be able to get it on the...