Results 1-20 of 42 for drugs speaker:Cathal Crowe

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: ...women who have just given birth can be reintegrated with the baby, have access to the baby and have family access without being, in this case, in a room next door to somebody who is coming off high-drug dependency. They are at totally different ends of the spectrum of mental health needs. This woman's point, which I reiterate because the poor woman is in the heavens these days, is there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: ...- once - I had to make a 999 call from the train because of the actions of another passenger. Occasionally, you see someone losing the rag or someone who is possibly under the influence of drugs, but it is tricky to go down to the bathroom or to the other end of the carriage to make a call. It would be great if there was a text facility to be able to text - there is a new name for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...against the traffic on one-way streets, driving across green areas and so on. More alarmingly, the drivers of these scramblers are not wearing helmets but are wearing balaclavas. They are doing drug runs. They are drug mules. The wearing of a balaclava is very intentional because the wearer cannot be identified but not wearing a helmet is even more intentional because An Garda...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...that resourcing a fifth unit is no longer operationally feasible and would result in a significant reduction in service delivery in many areas such as domestic abuse investigation, and that divisional drug units would be depleted and this would lead to a reduction in numbers in the national bureaus. These were his words. Nothing has changed since November 2022 apart from the fact that...

Youth Justice Strategy: Statements (21 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...is being looked after. The Tusla thresholds are questionable and need to be reviewed by Government. There are many elements to this. Deputy Gino Kenny was correct to mention the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use. It would be a blind approach to have youth strategies and have Fagin’s law before the Dáil two weeks ago, but not to have feed-in from the citizens' assembly. It is...

Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...xd3; Ríordáin. I absolutely agree that the Citizens' Assembly needs to lead to actions. We all engage very extensively in communities in our constituencies and note that the wrath and ravaging of drugs are very evident and on the increase. The profile of youngsters who develop a drug habit and become welded to it has definitely changed at constituency level in so far as I can...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 357. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update following talks (details supplied) in relation to the kaftrio drug for cystic fibrosis. [14491/23]

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ..., their application goes to the Garda vetting unit. Over a six- or seven-week period, the officers in the unit check out who people are and what their background is. Generally, it is understood that this is to ascertain whether they are from a drug-dealing background because, obviously and naturally, nobody wants a drug dealer going in a social housing development and allowing it to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...Works had undertaken a lot of work along the riverbank and the Minister of State came in to visit the historic structures there. Essentially, the abbey is being vandalised quite a lot. Plenty of drug paraphernalia can be seen there following weekends and a number of beautiful gravestones have been smashed to pieces. The ask, very simply, was that CCTV cameras be installed. I know it is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 1444. To ask the Minister for Health the reasoning behind the decision to fund the Hyperemesis gravidarum drug cariban for three months of pregnancy only; if there are plans to extend for the duration of pregnancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1290/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 1448. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the status of plans to reimburse pregnant people for the costs of the Hyperemesis Gravidarum drug Cariban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1297/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Finally, is there any good news on the Kaftrio drug for these 35 children?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: .... To ask the Minister for Health the engagement that he has had with his Department and HSE officials regarding the use of innovative payment models between industry and the State in respect of the drug reimbursement process for rare disease therapies; if he will examine such innovative solutions to ensure greater access; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39085/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...a product is experimental; the criteria this decision maker uses to decide such and the definitions applied to experimental treatment; if the relevant decision makers have the expertise to review drugs for complex conditions; if the existing reimbursement list is referred to in making reimbursement decisions or whether EMA approval is deemed to be the over-riding proof of clinical safety;...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: As educators, would the witnesses like that to move from an anecdotal basis to empirical evidence? There are many causal factors behind someone ending up in the penal system, such as drug addiction, which was mentioned a moment ago, family situations and a whole number of factors that we cannot quantify because they are individual factors. Another reason is one's unmet needs as one was...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The pharmaceutical company Vertex is manufacturing what is seen as a game-changer drug for people with cystic fibrosis, namely, Kaftrio. Unfortunately, due to a price squabble between the HSE and Vertex at the moment, there are 35 children with the F508 mutation who are omitted from that. They come in the age category of six to 11 years. This is a life or death matter. One of the families...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Rare Diseases: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...have asked. I will take up where my colleague, Deputy Colm Burke, left off on cystic fibrosis and Kaftrio. These 35 children, last month, in the age-six-to-11 category were due to receive this drug and the floor has collapsed from under them. They have had their blood test and were anticipating this. Given the age category these children belong to, most had a full awareness of what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Rare Diseases: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...-olds think about whether they are playing under-13s or under-14s hurling next year. I do not wish to trivialise it but weeks and days are qualifying or disqualifying these kids for a life-saving drug. It is so important to state and restate that. I turn to the economics of it. This is not directed at the witnesses, but the HSE and all Government institutions operate as silos, in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Rare Diseases: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I appreciate that. The Pembro drug is being championed by Vicky Phelan. Can the witnesses offer any commentary on the prevalence or uptake of that in Ireland? Is there any headway they can flag?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Medical Bureau of Road Safety: Chairperson Designate (25 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...more than the Road Safety Authority, he is delving into the cause of accidents, their aftermath etc. I would like to take up a number of points, following Deputy Carey's questions. I refer to drug-driving. For decades, we have all been familiar with drink-driving. Younger generations have come to grips with that and there are designated drivers who have soft drinks or zero alcohol...