Results 1-20 of 53 for drugs speaker:Neasa Hourigan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: ..., are saying that we have very low rates of participation in clinical trials, if I am reading the situation correctly. I am also watching, at an EU level, the issue around rare diseases and orphan drugs going through. I am concerned that the law might not be working in the way we want it to and genetic therapies, in particular, might not qualify for the extension for pharmaceutical...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (21 Feb 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 162. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to conduct drug harm-reduction campaigns aimed at people attending Irish music festivals this summer; his plans to roll out the use of ‘back of house’ drug checking through the use of surrender bins, which was piloted last summer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8207/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Local Drugs Task Forces (12 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 779. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the appointment of a new co-ordinator for the Finglas-Cabra local drug and alcohol task force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54651/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (7 Nov 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 849. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of “stop and search” operations conducted by An Garda Síochána under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977, in 2022. [48387/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Jul 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with drugs policy will next meet. [30915/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (15 Jun 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 262. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the review into the North Inner City Drugs and Alcohol Task Force; when this review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28890/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...leadership on addiction and in the provision of services is core to how we deal with that issue in our communities. In my community, in 2022, the Government began a review on the north inner-city drugs and alcohol task force. We did not see its terms of reference, but it has been ongoing for nearly a year and a half. I ask that, as a matter of urgency, the Cabinet publish that report...

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

Neasa Hourigan: 1517. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to the State for the drugs payment scheme threshold for single-headed households to be reduced to €72 per month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17047/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (29 Mar 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: ...engaged with the relevant stakeholders in relation to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice Report on an Examination of the Present Approach to Sanctions for Possession of Certain Amounts of Drugs for Personal Use recommendation that 'the practice of cultivation of currently illicit substances at a modest, non-profit level be examined in light of above recommendations in order to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Mar 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 642. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to make available under the drug payment scheme or medical card scheme the drug NP thyroid, which is used to treat thyroid conditions and autoimmune diseases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14782/23]

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

Neasa Hourigan: I very warmly welcome the establishment of the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use and the good work of the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, and the former Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, on pushing forward with it. When we first got it into the programme for Government we viewed it as a way to allow the complexity of the drugs debate to be on the table but not under the consistent...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 634. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cariban prescriptions that have been processed through the drugs payment scheme since it was made available under the community drug schemes. [6693/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 633. To ask the Minister for Health the reason cariban is only available under the community drug schemes when consultant obstetrician initiated as opposed to a general practitioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6692/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 635. To ask the Minister for Health the medicines available under the drug payment scheme to treat hyperemesis gravidarum; the medicines available on the medical card to treat same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6694/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (18 Jan 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 1876. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a greyhound (details supplied) was drug tested and checked by a veterinarian following his failure to leave trap six in the sixth race at Mullingar greyhound track on 18 December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2101/23]

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

Neasa Hourigan: ...made in this House, not in Civic Offices on Wood Quay or in Garda headquarters in the Phoenix Park, that will make the difference. We have a significant opportunity with the upcoming citizens’ assembly on drug use to radically reform our drug policy. The assembly should not be hamstrung by our current thinking or even by what is viewed as best practice in other countries. We...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens' Assembly (4 Oct 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 132. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of his Department in relation to setting terms of reference for the upcoming Citizens' assembly on drugs. [48623/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Citizens' Assembly (12 Jul 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 177. To ask the Minister for Health the recommendations that his Department has made on the scope of the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs being convened by the Department of the Taoiseach; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37668/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (5 Jul 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools engaging in the Know the Score national drug awareness programme; the approximate number of students who have participated in the programme since its launch in 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35418/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (28 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 779. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which his Department will support hospitals in meeting drugs costs and in implementing quality initiatives in delivery, as per the HSE Service Plan 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33776/22]