Results 1-8 of 8 for drugs speaker:Pauline O'Reilly

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Citizens' Assembly (14 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: ...to be the last one. A decision was made somewhere along the line that it would be, though. I am anxious. With the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss, we knew that we would be facing into a citizens’ assembly on drugs directly afterwards. That assembly concluded its hearings in October. We are two months on and there are still zero updates on a citizens’...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Citizens' Assembly (14 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: ...the assembly will be held. I want the Minister for Education to give a proper response. I want the Department of the Taoiseach to give a proper response. It is two months since the Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use. While the biodiversity assembly was ongoing, we knew when the drugs assembly would start. Something political is delaying this assembly. Young people are approaching...

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: ...we are seeing a rise again. The tobacco industry told us that bringing in vapes was a way to get people away from cigarette smoking but the European school survey on the use of alcohol and other drugs, ESPAD, youth survey found that we are now seeing an increase from a halving of cigarette smoking to numbers going back up again. It cannot be a coincidence that vaping is rising...

Seanad: Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: ...not happen. He committed 34 offences while on bail in the Republic and three in the North of Ireland. An hour before the final offence happened, this man was stopped by gardaí, with no NCT and with drugs in the car, yet nothing happened. He was told to go off about his business. Would that happen to any of the rest of us? I do not think so. I want to make sure it does not happen...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: ...The alliance for rare diseases in Ireland has spoken to me, as I am sure it has to others, about how it feels this is a catalyst for change now in Ireland because it is a long road to try to get orphan drugs approved in Ireland. We cannot stand idly by when Ireland is a laggard in that regard.  I also thank Deputies Pádraig O'Sullivan and John Lahart for the work they have...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (2 Feb 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: ...January. We are now into February. I submitted this Commencement matter at the end of January to get an update. There are 35 children and their families awaiting news. They had been denied the drug Kaftrio. I have been contacted by a former senior psychologist at the adult unit for cystic fibrosis in St. Vincent's University Hospital. She outlined to me the real psychological...

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Feb 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: ...Other measures the Minister outlined include a 20% reduction in public transport fees, a fuel allowance lump sum payment of €125, a reduction in the caps on school transport fees, a reduction in the drugs payment scheme monthly threshold from €144 to €80, which will impact on many people I know, and the front-loading of the working family payment. I hope Senator...

Seanad: Report on Victim’s Testimony in cases of rape and sexual assault: Motion (17 Nov 2021)

Pauline O'Reilly: ...of Galway City Council, there was not even a statistic for how many people were coming forward with rape and sexual assault incidents. There were statistics for everything else, from bike crime to drug offences, yet that fundamental problem at the heart of our society, that poison and epidemic, was not reported. I am fortunate I was able to have it changed in the case of Galway City...