Results 1-6 of 6 for drugs speaker:Joe Flaherty

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (5 Mar 2024)

Joe Flaherty: ...among medical professionals about this disease and there are also treatments available. There was a lifesaving breakthrough in 2021 when the HSE approved the use of a new treatment for hATTR. That drug is known as Onpattro, or patisiran, and it is supplied to them by the HSE through a managed access programme. The patients receive the infusions in their home, but the cost of receiving...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products (5 Mar 2024)

Joe Flaherty: ...as better news than Jim McGuinness returning as team manager. It is excellent news and I applaud the Minister of State for her work on this to date. The HSE has obviously decided to allow the drug based on a managed access protocol. I know when they started using the current drug it was limited to nine people and phased in over a similar length of time. If we can see the same...

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

Joe Flaherty: ...in County Longford, where gardaí are struggling with a spate of inter-family feuds. They are doing their absolute best but they are dealing with this in the face of a societal breakdown, rampant drug abuse and public acceptance of drug taking. It is a real struggle. I have never heard so many gardaí say that they want to exit the force. Anecdotally, I hear from gardaí...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (12 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: ...which she heard at first hand young people speak of their fear on the streets of Longford. Community policing needs resources, and when we do it right, it can be very effective. We have an excellent drugs unit in the Longford-Roscommon district and one of the top-performing community policing units in Longford town, ably led by Sergeant Darren Conlon, but to maintain that level of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Joe Flaherty: ...to the progress that had been made over the past ten years or so in the treatment of CF patients. Is it fair to say that we have evolved and come a long way in terms of licensing and producing new drugs and modified treatments for human health but we are probably light years behind in terms of licensing the same for food production?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 280. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that his Department monitors and tracks the development of the new drug omaveloxolone which presents the first real breakthrough treatment for Friedreich’s ataxia patients (details supplied). [4849/21]