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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (16 May 2023)

Vincent P Martin: ...of State to assure me that the Government will give this medication to those who urgently needed without one day's or one hour's unnecessary delay. When, as is anticipated, the EU approves this drug, based on verified track records, it is expected that the new drug will be readily available within weeks in France and Germany, yet Irish patients fear they will be facing a potential wait of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (16 May 2023)

Vincent P Martin: ...at the ready? Will things change? Sufferers want assurances. We have a track record of being in the Vauxhall non-league conference in terms of speed, when it comes to approving and funding such drugs. What is stopping Ireland being in the premier division? Then again, should we not all be equal in the context of the EU, as we are equal members of that family? Perhaps, there is a need...

Seanad: Transport Police Service: Motion (25 Jan 2023)

Vincent P Martin: ...very well what is going on. The National Bus and Rail Union has described some of the experiences of its members on buses. Its members have faced issues such sexual harassment, physical violence and open drug use. For the first six months of 2021, there were a total of 3,061 incidents recorded on the Garda PULSE system that were related to using public transport in Dublin. The Dublin...

Seanad: Public Order and Safe Streets: Statements (23 Nov 2022)

Vincent P Martin: ...in communities of the proceeds of Criminal Assets Bureau, CAB, seizures. It is appropriate that the money taken from those who are feasting on communities and being enriched to the tune of millions of euro by putting a lethal cocktail of drugs into the hands of vulnerable people should be reinvested in those communities. I welcome it wholeheartedly. That investment is in addition to the...

Seanad: Situation in the Middle East: Statements (1 Mar 2022)

Vincent P Martin: ...is antisemitic or an organisation of left-wing crazies. The usual lines were trotted out. The response was disgusting but not surprising. No doubt President Putin would call Amnesty a group of drug addicts and neo-Nazis as well. That is how these actors deal with such findings. There can be no normal conversation. A wonderful and eminent senior counsel, Bill Shipsey, recently had...

Seanad: British Government Legacy Proposals: Motion (13 Oct 2021)

Vincent P Martin: ...that were worst impacted by the conflict are today the communities that are suffering disproportionately from the mental health crises, socio-economic challenges and, in many cases, problematic drug and alcohol abuse. Lord Denning of all people, a controversial but very able judge in England, in upholding an appeal in 1980 by the West Midlands Police against a civil action brought by the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2021)

Vincent P Martin: ...be a positive for the Government. These people are the new mafiosa - make no mistake about it. They should be treated the same as people who kill on the way to rob banks and art galleries, or drug cartels. Their actions risk people losing their lives around the world. We should throw everything at this and the Defence Forces should have an increased budget as this is happening...

Seanad: European Digital Green Certificate: Statements (7 May 2021)

Vincent P Martin: ...on this and yet Joe Biden, the leader of the free world, is ahead of us on this. Fair play to President Biden for waiving the intellectual property rights. Of course there was pushback from the drug makers. I would ask the drug makers if they have made enough money yet. I would firstly say "Thank you so much". Barry McGuigan kept saying that to Barney Eastwood. I could not say "Thank...

Seanad: Mental Health and Covid-19: Statements (12 Feb 2021)

Vincent P Martin: ...to be primarily down to increased isolation, reduced access to face-to-face secondary mental health supports, reduced access to local counselling supports,reduced access to GPs, increased reliance on drugs and alcohol and domestic abuse in the home. Child and adolescent psychiatrists specifically highlighted school closures as contributing to stress and emergency presentations. I am not...