Results 1-13 of 13 for drugs speaker:Mairead Farrell

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Dec 2023)

Mairead Farrell: 324. To ask the Minister for Health the process for pregnant women to obtain the medication cariban under the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54346/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Dec 2023)

Mairead Farrell: 327. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cariban prescriptions that have been processed through the drug payment scheme to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54349/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Feb 2023)

Mairead Farrell: 284. To ask the Minister for Health the process in writing through which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain the drug cariban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6334/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Feb 2023)

Mairead Farrell: 285. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the drug cariban cannot be prescribed by a GP on the drugs payment scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6335/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Feb 2023)

Mairead Farrell: 286. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cariban prescriptions that have been processed through the drugs payment scheme to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6336/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Inquiries (18 Jan 2023)

Mairead Farrell: 1359. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the inquiry for the drug sodium valproate; when he intends it to be established; the terms of reference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63928/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (6 Jul 2022)

Mairead Farrell: ...for Health if he will provide an update on the action being taken by the Government to address the ongoing situation in which 35 children with a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis cannot access the drug therapy kaftrio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36568/22]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Mairead Farrell: My final question is about the citizens' assemblies. In the Taoiseach's opening remarks, he spoke of his intention to have a citizens' assembly on drugs, and he mentioned two other citizens' assemblies. Has he given further thought to the establishment of a national citizens' assembly on the constitutional future of this island, in terms of the shared island unit etc. and the citizens' assembly?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2021)

Mairead Farrell: This woman told me that she is on a couple of new drugs which are used to address long Covid and which cost more than €100 a month. Neither of these drugs is covered by the drug payment scheme. For people who are out of work and cannot afford such drugs, this really is crippling. It can be equally difficult for those in receipt of sick pay who are likely to have other outgoings such...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (25 Feb 2021)

Mairead Farrell: 276. To ask the Minister for Health the number of deaths from drug and alcohol overdose in County Galway disaggregated by city and county, age cohort and gender in each of the years 2017 to 2020. [10668/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (28 Jul 2020)

Mairead Farrell: 1016. To ask the Minister for Health the number of deaths from alcohol, drug overdose and suicide in each of the years from 2008 to 2019, in tabular form. [18683/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (3 Jun 2020)

Mairead Farrell: 527. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE will launch a public awareness campaign in 2020 on the dangers of casual drug use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8380/20]