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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cancer Services (17 Apr 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...chemotherapy wards and lab facilities for the benefit of patients. This Government has also allocated significant investment in ensuring new medicines are available for cancer patients. Funding for 61 different cancer drugs over the past three years has been made possible through an allocation of €98 million additional funding for new medicines. The total spend on cancer drugs...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Legislative Measures (20 Mar 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...Increase public awareness around the return of devices for responsible recycling. On 25 November 2023, Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, and Minister for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drug Strategy, Hildegarde Naughton, launched a public consultation to help inform future regulation of tobacco and nicotine inhaling products such as e-cigarettes or “vapes”....

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...done to them. No real explanation was given as to what happened. The doctor treating the person would then send a letter to the person's GP telling that person about it. People were often dispensed drugs or injected with drugs without even being told what was going on. The person's role was merely to submit and to accept all this. This is a different philosophy in which the patient...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Citizens' Assembly (14 Dec 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...committed to establishing four citizens’ assemblies on the topics of biodiversity loss, the type of directly elected mayor and local government structures best suited to Dublin, matters relating to drugs use and the future of education. Three of these citizens’ assemblies have now been held. The citizens' assemblies on local government in Dublin and biodiversity loss have...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Citizens' Assembly (14 Dec 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...the Senator’s frustration. The Government has set up and run three citizens’ assemblies, so the process is understood and not forgotten. I was involved in getting the Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use up and running, so I understand that it involves the relevant Department putting together proposals and sending them to the Department of the Taoiseach. Preparatory work...

Seanad: Budget 2024 (Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform): Statements (10 Oct 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...may be about conditions, culture and so on. The issue may need to be addressed in other ways. I had the honour of being on board Naval Service's LÉ William Butler Yeats. I was shown around it. That is the same ship that was involved in a large and successful drugs operation recently. The Senator pointed out that the patrol duty allowance, the amount of money that is paid per day...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ...of conduct for tobacco lobbyists, for people selling cars, for people selling food that is carcinogenic, for people selling alcohol or for people promoting the legalisation of currently illicit drugs. I am not sure how the parallel is exactly the same; we have managed, greatly through regulation, to reduce tobacco consumption. It is a policy success and I would like to see that reflected...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...for clients. These clients are Departments and public bodies and services include: analysis of food and feed to meet EU legislative requirements related to food safety for the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland; analysis of post mortem examination samples for alcohol, drugs and other substances for the Coroners Service across all...

Seanad: Budget 2023 (Public Expenditure and Reform): Statements (27 Sep 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...that. A number of Senators referred to the fact that IVF is being funded for the first time, that contraception is being provided free of charge up to the age of 30 and that pregnant women suffering from hyperemesis will be able to get access to a drug, which they had sought for so long and which many of us had been asked to work on their behalf to obtain. Senators can see that women's...

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Prohibition of Winter Disconnections) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2022)

Ossian Smyth: .... In March, the additional lump sum payment of €125 of the fuel allowance was paid to approximately 370,000 recipients. In terms of broader cost-of-living policy responses, as part of the February suite of measures, a reduction of €80 in the drug payment scheme was announced, as well as a 20% reduction in public transport fees from the end of April until the end of the...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (22 Feb 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...reduction in fares of 20% from the end of April until the end of the year. This will impact approximately 800,000 daily users. The original Sláintecare report proposed a reduction in the monthly threshold for the drugs payment scheme from €144 to €100. The Government has decided to reduce this further from €100 to €80. This will benefit just over 70,000...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (22 Feb 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...fares of 20 per cent from the end of April to the end of the year, and this will impact approximately 800,000 daily users of Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann, Dublin Bus, Go Ahead, Luas, Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) and Local Link services; — the reduction of the Drugs Payment Scheme from €144 to €80 will benefit just over 70,000 families; —...

Seanad: Budget 2022: Statements (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Ossian Smyth: ...inside a bus or they have changed their habit over the period of time. We need to take some actions to get people to change back and to come back. Senator Ruane made a heartfelt contribution and talked about the effect on drug treatment and in deprived areas or areas where people lost hope for years. Senator Ruane is absolutely right. A budget is about allocating money. It is about...

Seanad: National Lottery (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (29 Sep 2021)

Ossian Smyth: ...gambling and the possibility that graphic and enticing advertising appears to be very attractive to children. That is an issue of concern. Like every Member of this House, I am aware that problem gambling devastates lives and can lead to destruction beyond that caused by alcohol and drug addiction. I thank the proposers of the Bill for bringing it forward and I am glad to say that the...

Criminal Justice (Public Order) (Quadbikes and Scramblers) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Sep 2021)

Ossian Smyth: I will follow on from what Deputy Ward said. When he was mayor of South Dublin County Council he suggested that scramblers were being used in pairs for drug-dealing. I was not aware of that. He also pointed out that scramblers are also used safely. I presume there are locations in the Dublin mountains where they can be used. Such safe use needs encouragement and support. I am also glad...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Ossian Smyth: ...we are at war, I believe the Constitution defines when Ireland goes to war. It is a particular state and we are not in that state at present, unless it is a metaphorical war such as the war on drugs or the war on poverty. All institutions of the State are working. I am seeing a lot of harmonious connections between the Departments. Everyone recognises this is a threat to all of the...

Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (30 Jun 2020)

Ossian Smyth: ...remainder of 2020. We recognise that apart from the pandemic, there continues to be underlying pressure on health service costs arising from inflation in a variety of areas, including the areas of drugs, salaries, high-tech diagnostics and treatment options. We are clearly examining a large incremental budget from the health service today. We recognise that the structure of the budget...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Ossian Smyth: ...and if it would provide more information for the system in order that we could determine the extent of the spread of the disease and how we are getting on with it? The therapeutics, that is, the drugs to deal with Covid-19, are an important milestone in the roadmap to getting out of these restrictions. I understand that there is a very promising drug, remdesivir, created by Gilead...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (16 Apr 2020)

Ossian Smyth: ...crisis. We need one because we need to know how to reopen the economy and get back to normal. A roadmap has been published by Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former commissioner of the federal Food and Drug Administration in America. He has provided four steps, starting from lockdown which is the phase in which we are. Lockdown seems to be working but we cannot stay in that phase forever. The...