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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Prison Service (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Patrick Costello: ...and it incentivises them to engage in positive behaviours and education, for which they are rewarded. The progression unit was the top of this programme and allowed for a more relaxed, safer and drug-free environment that provided better incentives and better rehabilitation options for prisoners. Now, due to overcrowding, that has been lost, and this is incredibly short-sighted....

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Catherine Connolly: ...". This is most unusual. I would like to go into it. I am just raising concerns about it because I will use my time to look at the external body mainly. It provides a statutory basis for drug testing. This has been in place and will now be on a statutory basis, which is good. It protects the term "Óglaigh na hÉireann", which is very welcome. I reiterate what Deputy...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Micheál Martin: ...Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre (Narcotics), which is an international maritime intelligence centre supported by the European Union, requested a Naval Service ship to assist with maritime drug interdiction operations. Although Ireland is a strong supporter of the centre and was in fact one of the founding members, a ship could not be sent given that there would be no UN mandate...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (2 May 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Joan Collins: 7. To ask the Minister for Health the reason youth service workers employed through the City of Dublin ETB channel of funding in the drugs and alcohol task forces have not received the October 2023 WRC 8% pay rise or had their wages restored to pre-2009 cuts levels; and what detailed measures the Government is putting in place that pay rises are specifically accounted for in channels of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Homes (2 May 2024)

Mary Butler: ...his question. I also congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Colm Burke, as I know the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, also does, on sitting here beside us answering questions on public health and drugs. On the Deputy's question, voluntary organisations form an essential and integral part of the overall health and social care system. Historically, the voluntary sector was the first to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: A Ministerial Licence issued pursuant to Section 14 for the Misuse of Drugs entitles the clinician licencee to prescribe, import, supply , possess and administer a cannabis-based product containing Tetrahydrocannabinol. The decision on what to prescribe is a clinical decision in which neither the Minister for Health nor the Department of Health has a role. As the products are Schedule...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: 300. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug pembrolisumab is approved by the MHRA and available for reimbursement to the patients that are prescribed it. [20086/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 308. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of rare and orphan drugs currently being evaluated for use in Ireland; the length of time that is normally required for this process; the drugs that have taken an inordinate amount of time to evaluate and approve for use here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20143/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...and affordable access to medicines for patients in Ireland over the next 4 years. Negotiations towards these new Agreements with industry began in May 2021, against a backdrop of a growing annual drugs budget, up from €1.95bn in 2016 to almost €2.25bn by 2020. Between 2020 and 2023, 171 new medicines were approved for reimbursement by the HSE, to include 61 medicines for...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...we as politicians, who enforce the law of the land, and those involved in different State agencies are doing enough to try to protect vulnerable people, whether it is those caught up with alcohol or drug abuse, or children. We hear of awful cases where parents have subjected their children to abuse for profit. We read about such cases in local newspapers, where mums and dads have...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 May 2024)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...was made with Kildare County Council that it would be for people aged over 55 and for people with disabilities. There are very unfortunate rumours and people are peddling stories that it is for drug addicts and people with mental health issues. People are going up to the school which is beside the convent and giving out utter rubbish in terms of information. I want to call this out in...

Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Róisín Garvey: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. He has an interesting brief – public health, well-being and the drugs task force. If you look at the Irish word for well-being, folláin, it is about being whole. As a nation I wonder how many people are getting that wholesomeness in their daily lives. Therefore, today we call for a commission on loneliness. As the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (1 May 2024)

Jack Chambers: ...trend of rising road fatalities and serious injuries, the Road Traffic Act 2024 was brought forward to address key driver behaviours. The Act introduces penalty point reform, mandatory drug testing at the scene of serious collisions, and reduces default speed limits as recommended by the Speed Limit Review. This will involve reducing the default Speed Limits from 50km/h to 30km/h for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Mental Health Services (1 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: ..., there are a number of reports in relation to health and mental health in prisons which have been published relatively recently, including the Irish Prison Service Strategy 2023 – 2027, the Irish Prison Service Drugs Strategy 2023 – 2026, the 2020 Report from the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the High Level...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (1 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Róisín Shortall: 296. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on implementation of each of the recommendations from the review of governance arrangements to support the HSE drug reimbursement process, prepared by a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19698/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (1 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ..., and without incurring the further extra costs of a dispensing fee. There are currently no plans to reinstate these products on the list of reimbursable items under the GMS and other community drug schemes. However, possession of a medical card may assist with other medical services. In accordance with the provisions of the Health Act 1970 (as amended), eligibility for a medical card is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UN Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...the cost of living, poverty and intergenerational poverty. In this day and age, across the western world in particular, we are dealing with something that nobody ever talks about, which is drug addition and drug crime. It is the stuff that impacts on a day-to-day basis. Circumstances are not improving. Ms McGrath said that we can talk about African countries and overseas development...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: What plans are there to deal with violence? I am talking about both organised violence, that is, drug dealing, drug-debt intimidation and the wholesale violence that communities have to deal with and disorganised violence. That can be the crime of chaotic families, vulnerable people who are sometimes, for want of a better term, useful idiots who are used by drug gangs. Such chaotic...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Boylan: ...at the news coming out of Brussels with regard to the negotiations that the Government is siding with countries that want to reduce the regulation to allow non-vets to administer the euthanasia drug pentobarbital. This is concerning. We are a small country and we cannot use the excuse of remote facilities. It is also concerning given our history. We have seen this drug abused in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (30 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...the work of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications to develop a scale of fees for JR applicants as a first/pilot step in developing generalisable options. Support the Drug Related Intimidation Reporting Programme, developed by the National Family Support Network, in partnership with An Garda Síochána, to respond to the needs of drug users...