Results 1-20 of 524 for drugs speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Mar 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to address the growing concern of diabetics regarding the difficulties in obtaining ozempic, some persons are finding it impossible to obtain the drug. [12579/24]

Tribunal of Inquiry into certain matters relating to the Complaints Processes in the Defence Forces: Motion (24 Jan 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...since sliced bread in this country. We kept poisoning our men and women who were operating overseas even though it was shown time and again inside and outside this House that Lariam was the wrong drug to use. Regarding the abuse of chemicals, the military authorities blatantly knew there was no PE. The reports were there. In fact, the military authorities forced people to shred...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (23 Nov 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 330. To ask the Minister for Health what steps have been taken under the National Drugs Strategy to ensure that drugs rehabilitation projects have the capacity and supports required to benefit from the ring-fenced T-coded CE places for those recovering from drug or alcohol addiction; and her views on the issue. [51680/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Employment Drug Rehabilitation Projects (13 Jul 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 658. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a restriction on drugs rehabilitation CE schemes advertising vacant T-coded CE participant places on platforms such as publicjobs.ie; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34802/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (27 Jun 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 477. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she aware of the case of a person (details supplied) serving a sentence in relation to the of possession of drugs in Shelton Abbey open prison, County Wicklow, due to be released following your approval on 12 June 2023 under the community return scheme to take up a voluntary position working with the SOLAS project in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 May 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...person who has been prescribed and had been taking Ozempic, until earlier this year when supplies dried up, and with their hepatology team stressing the importance for their getting back on the drug for their health; if, given that the person has now spent many months without Ozempic, the person or his Department can try and source this abroad with their prescription; if such a purchase...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (25 Apr 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 549. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 123 of 4 April 2019, the measures being taken to assist a person (details supplied) who urgently needs the drug sativex; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19127/23]

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank Deputy McAuliffe for raising what we should be debating rather than having Deputies sniping across the Chamber. We have major questions to deal with in the future in respect of drugs and criminal gangs in this city. I welcome the new implementation group which, as far as I know, was set up this week in Cherry Orchard. I hope it will have the same effect that similar organisations...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...of life disappear. You then have a new whole cohort who come in. Thankfully, in most areas, we are starting to see some of those new gardaí drifting into communities as they come out of Templemore but they are raw recruits and one can see they are learning on the job. There are not enough sergeants to ensure they are learning as much as they can but I wish all of them well....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Feb 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 158. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain the drug cariban; the reason cariban cannot be prescribed by a GP on the drugs payment scheme given that most women do not see a consultant until after 12 weeks; the steps pregnant women can take to help with the extreme nausea and vomiting for the first 12 weeks or...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Drug Dealing (19 Jan 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: One sentence in that proves the point that I made that more than one quarter of all drug seizures in the Kevin St. subdistrict were from the Oliver Bond complex. I did not say that gardaí are not working. In fairness, they are. There have been undercover operations. They act on the information they receive. I can tell them that if they go into H-block now, they will find a queue on...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Drug Dealing (19 Jan 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...or years but the situation in the Oliver Bond flats in the historic Liberties area, in particular, has gone absolutely buck mad. It is not the only flat complex in the area where there is open drug dealing at a level that has never been seen before. The queues of people outside certain blocks and flats show that this is organised. There are characters running up and down taking orders...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes (8 Dec 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ..., confidantes, trainers, mentors, managers and administrators. The role is a significant one. There was no recognition of it, but during Covid, meals-on-wheels services continued to operate. The drugs project that I am involved in, Liberty Recycling, empties clothing banks around the country. The participants on the CE scheme were in attendance and were looked after all through Covid....

Dublin City Safety Initiatives and Other Services: Statements (17 Nov 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...atá in a lán ceantar eile maidir le seirbhísí agus a leithéid a dhéanaimid plé orthu go minic. Tá ceantair i mo dhúiche féin nach bhfuil páirc pheile acu cumadh, fiú amháin, agus gan soláthar ceart tithíochta a bheith acu don éileamh áitiúil atá ann. Tá fadhbanna acu le díol...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (8 Nov 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...sports groups that have come together under the auspices of Sporting Liberties. The Minister of State knows that well. He was in Cherry Orchard today announcing funding from the Dormant Accounts Fund. Sports can divert people away from crime and drugs and help them to keep fit and healthy and to make friends. In this area of the Liberties, we cannot keep losing generation after...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 545. To ask the Minister for Health if and when the new weight loss injections may be covered under the drug payment scheme card (details supplied). [45841/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (5 Jul 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...has been drawn to the situation of two children (details supplied) who have cystic fibrosis and are among 35 children between the ages of six to 11 years who are being denied access to the drug Kaftrio, which would greatly improve their lives; if his attention has been further drawn to the ongoing failure of the HSE to either engage with two named organisations or to make a decision to...

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...set up, An Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces and even the UN should be encouraged to address and investigate them with greater urgency. Beyond that, the Defence Forces and the Minister need to learn from other defence forces that have addressed and been open about legacy issues, such as that relating to Lariam. This was a drug that was poisonous to some people, although for...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (3 Feb 2022)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...Government's response to the order to end all checks on goods entering the North of Ireland; and (10) Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - to discuss when the Government will convene a citizens' assembly on the misuse of drugs. The matters raised by Deputies Ruairí Ó Murchú and Martin Kenny; Bernard J. Durkan, Réada Cronin, James Lawless and Catherine Murphy;...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (7 Dec 2021)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...the Minister of State's clarification. I hope that it will stand the test of time and that, as he presented it, this was a miscommunication. I know the Minister of State’s track record on the drugs issue. I accept that he personally might not want to go ahead with this but there has been tension all along between communities, community groups and some in the Department and the...