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

Matt Shanahan: ...of applications to the HSE via the Health Products Regulatory Authority, HPRA, medicines review group every year, especially in the area of orphan diseases. The Minister will be aware that a number of drugs have come onto the scheme, perhaps more than 150 in recent years. Another 150 are probably out there for specific groups of patients. This will always create a difficult economic...

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

Matt Shanahan: ...not going to take eight minutes but I will lay out some points. First, I pay tribute to Deputy Kenny. He has been the foremost voice in the Chamber since his arrival here in looking for a revised drug strategy from the Government. I would not question in anyway his bona fides, which stand large and tall, regarding his concern for those who have fallen into addiction and the need for...

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...engagement with section 39 health workers, and the Minister of State's work on children's referral, in particular to CAMHS, and the No Wrong Door strategy. These are all to be welcomed. On the drug strategy the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, spoke about, I point out the important work done in the area of addiction. I highlight Gerry Carroll and Aiséirí in Waterford who...

Youth Justice Strategy: Statements (21 Jun 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...everybody in the House would, the anti-grooming legislation on inducement and coercion into crime. We have to acknowledge that a large part of our problem in the criminal justice system is coming through the use of drugs, the drugs trade and how it is targeting youth. Unfortunately, that is a difficult question because many in society are partaking in drugs and feel they are not part of...

Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2023)

Matt Shanahan: .... I speak to many doctors, however, and they already see a lot of different types of damage from vaping. There is much work going on in Ireland particularly at the moment around trying to give drug delivery to the very smallest tissues in a person's lungs as one of the most effective ways to introduce needed medication into a person's system. What we are now doing is putting vapour...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Matt Shanahan: ...behaviour, theft, money laundering, general types of stealing and what have you. I think it is fair to say that the organised crime in this country is most prominently seen around the drugs trade. Ireland has moved on very much in comparison with other countries in Europe and we have quite a burgeoning hard and soft drugs trade. I think most people involved in social services and...

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I am happy to contribute to this motion from the Labour Party on decriminalisation and drugs policy. We have been speaking about a drugs crisis and drug abuse in our society for many decades. It is funny that we use the word "crisis", which suggests that something is short-term in nature, when the problem has been going on for decades as well we know. It is having a terribly destructive...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...they have in trying to integrate with the court system and to process their own work. We have significant challenges now across the State, not least of which are the increased challenges of anti-social behaviour, drug abuse, criminal theft and damage, attacks upon the person and attacks upon gardaí. Many of those who are accused in the courts of serious crimes are availing of legal...

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...limbs of our gardaí, which would not have been commonplace over past decades, are commonplace today. Unfortunately, we have far more pervasive crime, as the Minister knows, particularly in relation to the drugs trade in Ireland. Any garda who is single-handedly trying to interrupt the activities of drug gangs for their profits is certainly taking a chance with their personal safety...

Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (2 Feb 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...of indigenous contractors who engaged with the HSE and now find the HSE trying to dictate new terms because it believes the Covid pandemic is passing. These include companies which had antiviral drugs approved by the EPA but the Department of Health did not engage with them. In terms of the hospital situation, we have significant waiting lists throughout the country. I ask the Ministers...

Extension of Part 3 of the Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Matt Shanahan: ...lockdown, there has been a 30% increase in the number of patients attending hospital with cirrhosis of the liver. There are problems right across the community. We need to mitigate them. Antiviral drugs have been available for some time, including one from Merck, Molnupiravir, which has meant a 50% reduction in Covid deaths in early introduction. We have made no efforts whatsoever...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (12 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: ...cost on her this week with the increase in excise duty? As mentioned a few minutes ago, perhaps the Government should have stated it would ring-fence the extra revenue accruing and give it to the Garda or a drugs task force or do something with it that people could understand. At this stage, after carbon levies and everything else, this increase is probably a step too far.

The National Youth Justice Strategy 2021-2027 and Supporting Community Safety: Statements (6 Oct 2021)

Matt Shanahan: ...fact that people who live in disadvantaged areas certainly feel vulnerable, for themselves and their children, whether they are inside or outside their homes due to gangs and antisocial behaviour, drugs and substance abuse, or the danger of them and their children being coerced or exposed to criminality, and low- and mid-level crime. We know disadvantage leads to further disadvantage....

Garda Siochana (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

Matt Shanahan: ...of money was paid by a Waterford company. Thanks to the diligence and activity of the Garda fraud office, that money was recovered. That is probably the exception rather than the rule. This is a matter we need to look at. Other Members have discussed our drugs strategy. It is hard to know where we are going with the drugs situation in this country. I accept there are many societal...

European Union Regulation: Motion (29 Apr 2021)

Matt Shanahan: ...our country from malevolent large-scale crime and terrorist syndicates that target our shores daily. If people think this statement is an exaggeration, I ask them to ponder the volume of illegal drugs that pass through this country every year in response to domestic and European demand. We might also consider the human trafficking that has taken place in this country or that has been...

Mental Health Policy: Motion [Private Members] (9 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: ...realistic chance of saving the money, thus being denied the gift of parenthood. We think mostly of the socially vulnerable who have started with a poor hand of cards, many of whom are targeted for drug addiction and migrate into homelessness and endless social exclusion. Not all of these situations have been created exclusively by Covid-19 but are being exacerbated by it. The State's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (1 Dec 2020)

Matt Shanahan: 694. To ask the Minister for Health the downstream and overall cost-benefit analysis conducted by the corporate pharmaceutical unit when assessing reimbursement applications for novel and generic drug applications; his views on whether the full system savings are being considered in such applications; if evidence of same in action can be demonstrated; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Sep 2020)

Matt Shanahan: The programme for Government outlines that the Government wishes to establish a national medicines agency to set a fair price for drug reimbursement. I can tell the Minister that that process is not working. I am aware of applications for drug reimbursement which would save the State millions but which are not being approved because headline discounts of up to 50% are required. No...

Covid-19 (Sport): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Matt Shanahan: ...I highlight what has already been said in the House today regarding boxing? Everybody in this House and, I am sure, the public at large are appalled at the rebranding of a high-level member of an Irish drug cartel alleged to be involved in murder and serious crime as an international promoter of boxing renown. I hope the Minister's departmental officials are doing everything they can to...