Results 1-20 of 348 for drugs speaker:Simon Coveney

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (12 Oct 2023)

Simon Coveney: ...The projects represent a recent investment of over €1billion across both facilities. MSD Carlow serves as a filling site for the launch and commercial supply of vaccines, biologics, and small molecule drug products. Established in 2008, this state-of-the-art facility was MSD's first vaccines operation outside of the United States and has seen significant growth, expansion, and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (24 Nov 2022)

Simon Coveney: ...Service has a big challenge with recruitment and retention to get to where want to be so that we can ensure that the Naval Service can do what we are asking of it, not only in fisheries patrols, drug interdiction and the other sovereignty and security issues, but also some of the new infrastructure it will need to protect when it is built. I assure the Deputy that there is an absolute...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Maritime Jurisdiction (28 Jun 2022)

Simon Coveney: ...as necessary including coastal areas. Naval Service vessels are multi-tasked in that they undertake general surveillance, security and other duties such as search and rescue, diving operations, drugs interdiction among others. The Fisheries Monitoring Centre (FMC) located at Naval Base Haulbowline carries out monitoring and surveillance of all vessels equipped with a Vessel Monitoring...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (28 Jun 2022)

Simon Coveney: ...service in accordance with the State's obligations as a member of the European Union, it also carries out a number of other non-fishery related tasks such as search and rescue, diving operations, drugs interdiction as well as many more. At any one time, the Naval Service can have a number of ships that are on active operations around the Irish EEZ whilst a number of others are undergoing...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Drug Dealing (31 May 2022)

Simon Coveney: ...12(1)(C) of the Passports Act 2008, the Minister can, in certain circumstances, refuse to issue a passport. Any decision by the Minister to withhold passports from citizens convicted of international drug dealing and serial criminality would primarily be based on security advice forwarded to the Minister, by one or both of the Government Departments charged with responsibility for the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (22 Mar 2022)

Simon Coveney: ...Administrative Instructions, it would be inappropriate of me to comment further on it at this time. However, I can advise that the unlawful possession, supply, or use, of a controlled drug is incompatible with membership of the Defence Forces. The Flag Officer Commanding Naval Service is committed to holding the Naval Service to a high standard and maintaining a zero...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (27 Jan 2022)

Simon Coveney: ...to the Mediterranean as part of the EUNAVFOR mission (Op SOPHIA) have received authorised mission medals instead. More recently, in June 2021, the Naval Service played a key role in tracking and identifying a fishing vessel which was carrying drugs estimated to be worth €220 million. The vessel was intercepted off the Canary Islands after the Naval Service had brought the ship to...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: International Agreements (27 Jan 2022)

Simon Coveney: ...protection service in accordance with the State's obligations as a member of the European Union, it also carries out a number of other non-fishery related tasks such as search and rescue, diving operations, drugs interdiction as well as many more. In terms of fishery protection, the Naval Service is tasked with patrolling all Irish waters from the shoreline to the outer limits of the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (27 Jan 2022)

Simon Coveney: ...the capability for participating Member States to share different levels of classified information across the network. The MARSUR projects have assisted Member States, including Ireland, to combat drug trafficking, smuggling, illegal immigration and migration and international terrorism. Better exchange of information plays an important part in protecting maritime trade, the maritime...

Seanad: Final Report on Impacts of Brexit of Seanad Special Select Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Simon Coveney: ...Ireland, Cyprus and Malta markets that have been historically supplied through or by Great Britain. The proposals will change EU rules to ensure the same medicines, including lifesaving and innovative drugs, are available in Northern Ireland at the same time they are available in the rest of the United Kingdom. In short, they provide greater flexibility to pharmaceutical companies in...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Update on Withdrawal Agreement, Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland and Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Minister for Foreign Affairs (24 Nov 2021)

Simon Coveney: First of all, the problem in Northern Ireland is not as feared. Certainly, there is a fear that certain drugs may not be able to get into Northern Ireland because they are certified in Great Britain and that certification would not be recognised by the EU, and therefore that product coming into the EU Single Market for goods would be problematic because it is not certified by the EU....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Simon Coveney: This sounds like a very difficult case, particularly when there are time considerations in respect of the application of the drug. I can understand why parents would be at their wits' end trying to get access to a drug they believe can make a life-changing difference to their child. It is the first that I have heard of this case but I will follow up on it. If the Deputy sends me the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Simon Coveney: ...to Uganda; almost 930,000 doses to Tunisia, more than 1.6 million doses to Peru; and more than 300,000 doses delivered to Paraguay. Further support to COVAX before the end of the year is under consideration. Over recent months, Ireland has also shipped equipment and drugs directly to India, Brazil and Nepal, from HSE supplies. Those supplies are now exhausted. Complementary to our work...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Naval Service (14 Jul 2021)

Simon Coveney: ...’s obligations as a member of the European Union. However, as the need arises, Naval Service vessels are deployed to other duties such as aid to the civil power, search and rescue or recovery and drug interdiction operations. Naval Service patrols are complemented by assistance provided by the Air Corps. The Air Corps Maritime Squadron carries out aerial surveillance of our EEZ...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (29 Jun 2021)

Simon Coveney: ...the matters raised in the addtional details supplied by the Deputy the following may be of interest. The Naval Service recently played a key role in tracking and identifying a fishing vessel which was carrying drugs that were estimated to be worth €220 million. The vessel was intercepted off the Canary Islands after the Naval Service had brought the ship to the attention of...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (13 May 2021)

Simon Coveney: ...service in accordance with the State's obligations as a member of the European Union, it also carries out a number of other non-fishery related tasks such as search and rescue, diving operations, drugs interdiction as well as many more. In relation to its sea-fishery protection role, the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 established the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority...

Ireland's participation in MARSUR III: Motion (22 Apr 2021)

Simon Coveney: ...or lead to a European army or more investment in military activity by other countries. It does not happen because we are co-operating in sharing data and efficiencies, becoming better at stopping drugs coming into the country or giving us better search and rescue capacity. It is about giving us the capacity to choose to go to the Mediterranean to opt into a mission that saves lives....

Ireland's participation in MARSUR III: Motion (22 Apr 2021)

Simon Coveney: ...and develop the capability for participating member states to share different levels of classified information across the network. The MARSUR projects have assisted member states, including Ireland, to combat drug trafficking, smuggling, illegal immigration and migration and international terrorism. Better exchange of information plays an important part in protecting maritime trade, the...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: European Defence Agency Project and Defence Forces Service in the UN: Motions (30 Mar 2021)

Simon Coveney: ..., the maritime environment, natural resources and in countering illicit activity in the maritime domain. The MARSUR projects have assisted member states, including Ireland, in enhancing situational awareness so as to combat drug trafficking, people smuggling and other illicit activities. MARSUR III is a follow-on project and will look to improve and upgrade the current technology to...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: European Defence Agency Project and Defence Forces Service in the UN: Motions (30 Mar 2021)

Simon Coveney: ...undermine our neutrality or our independence of thought from a foreign policy perspective. If there is one thing I know about the maritime domain, it is that it does not respect borders. If somebody wants to bring drugs into Ireland, when they are travelling through other countries' waters it is the sharing of information that allows the Naval Service to be as effective as it is, for...