Results 1-20 of 22 for drugs speaker:Martin Browne

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Martin Browne: ...the driver's test must also be reviewed, including a review of the minimum number of lessons. Any education and publicity measure needs to make an impact on the personal choice some drivers make in speeding, drug- and drink-driving and it needs to reach across all age groups. My final point is about enforcement and environment, speeding-prone stretches of road and traffic management...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: ...what the Government should be seeking to address in 2024, as Sinn Féin has proposed to do by raising the income threshold to increase the number of medical cards by 400,000 while also reducing the drug payment scheme threshold to €60. The Government needs to take decisions that matter to people and not dabble around for the sake of making it appear it is making a difference...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: ...and wheels written off because of the state of the roads. This is a danger but can be addressed if the resources are targeted where they are needed. I welcome the introduction of mandatory roadside drug testing at the scene of a crash where injury has occurred. However, again this is an action taken after the crash or tragedy has occurred. This Bill is incomplete. The Department must...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Browne: ...;Call for a Citizens Assembly on the Irish Justice system; Policing, Crime and Rehabilitation” from Mr. Cormac McKay. This petition relates to the request that the then proposed citizens' assembly on drugs be expanded to encompass the entire justice system, policing, crime and rehabilitation in the Republic of Ireland. According to the petition, there is a growing public...

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Martin Browne: I thank Deputy Gino Kenny for bringing this Bill forward. Progressive Bills enable us to have a debate in which we consider drug use and possession of various kinds in our society are to be welcomed. It is clear that the current response to drug use and drug possession needs reform. How that reform is approached and structured is complex and has a fundamental importance from health,...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Martin Browne: ...to 411 in December 2019. We cannot expect the gardaí to be everywhere but we should expect adequate investment given the 22% increase in seat belt offences, intoxicated driving rising to 183 with 45 drug driving offences at the same time as checkpoints fell by 27%. This goes back to the issue of Garda numbers. On the road network, I do not understand how the Minister signed off on...

Health (Amendment) (Dual Diagnosis: No Wrong Door) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: ...go the extra mile while the State dithered and clinical lead positions remained vacant and action stalled. As the Minister of State knows only too well, the nature of mental health issues and drug addiction is complex. However, there is no-one for whom it is more complex than the person dealing with these issues and those trying to get help for him or her. As in other areas of the...

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

Martin Browne: 561. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cariban prescriptions that have been processed through the drugs payment scheme to date. [6531/23]

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (11 Oct 2022)

Martin Browne: ...again. He was seen by CAMHS, which again confirmed that it was ARFID. It could not offer a service as it had no psychiatrist trained in the area of eating disorders yet it wanted to administer a drug for anxiety. The family then turned to Éist Linn in Cork, which despite initially agreeing to take him on, subsequently refused him on the basis that it would be able to treat...

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Nov 2021)

Martin Browne: ...visited our shores when eight lifeless bodies were discovered among 13 people in the back of a lorry in Wexford. The profits made by the smuggling of people contribute to the international drugs trade, enforced prostitution, exploitation and other illegalities, such as violence and conflict. People smuggling must be tackled in a way that tells anyone involved that the full force of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug Dealing (9 Sep 2021)

Martin Browne: 926. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the practice of drug dealers enticing young people into using illegal drugs by initially providing them with free narcotics; and the actions that are being taken to tackle this. [42610/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug Dealing (9 Sep 2021)

Martin Browne: 927. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures being taken to tackle the forceful collection of drug debts accrued through the drug trade; her views on the way criminals are targeting parents to pay these debts; and if instances of this kind of criminality are on the increase. [42611/21]

Committee on Public Petitions: Direct Provision Policy and Related Matters: Discussion (8 Jul 2021)

Martin Browne: I have one final question and then I will bring in other members. I will and come back in at the end. Drug addiction and mental health issues among people in direct provision were mentioned. How prevalent is that? What has been the impact of the pandemic on people in direct provision? If treatments were more available does Dr. Lannon think that may be another element of dealing with the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (21 Apr 2021)

Martin Browne: ...number of patients on methadone maintenance therapy in each county; the length of time patients spend on such therapy on average by county; and the supports available to help persons become fully drug free by county. [19917/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (3 Mar 2021)

Martin Browne: 727. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to approve medicines for the treatment of hyperemesis gravidarum for medical card patients and the drug payment scheme (details supplied). [11034/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Dec 2020)

Martin Browne: ...harder on survivors. It outlines what the survivors have been living with for decades and the trauma that has manifested itself through all of the impacts, in particular the anxiety, depression, drug and alcohol problems, educational disadvantage, work-related problems and homelessness that have been experienced by survivors. Will the Minister commit to taking an approach that is...

Mental Health Parity of Esteem Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Nov 2020)

Martin Browne: ...outcome. The HSE has spent €124,586 over a 14-month period and this resulted in the draft model of care. It went nowhere and the only resource available from that study is a link to the website drugs.ie. This shows how, as Deputy Ward put it, mental health is the Cinderella of health services. Organisations such as CARMHA in Nenagh are doing great work in this regard, and I...

Community Safety and Preventing Crime: Statements (18 Nov 2020)

Martin Browne: ...they have done to bring our communities together and to alleviate some of the loneliness many have experienced during this pandemic. They have made a massive difference, especially by taking so many drugs out of our communities in Tipperary. They have played a key role in maintaining our sense of community during these difficult times. There are, however, still shortfalls in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Naval Service (8 Oct 2020)

Martin Browne: .... It is also my understanding that this was not an isolated event. I ask the Minister to assure the House that key matters dealt with by our Naval Service, like the interception of illegal drugs, are not being compromised. I am also aware that the sums involved in the pay restoration under FEMPI are meagre and are unlikely to make much of a difference to the lives of those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (7 Jul 2020)

Martin Browne: 740. To ask the Minister for Health the additional supports in place for communities affected by the increasing intimidation from drug dealers that has coincided with the significant increase in drugs seizures in County Tipperary; if a plan is in place to provide increased addiction treatment services in line with the increased Garda resources; and his views on the lack of co-ordination...