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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (31 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: ..., re-integration and engagement in a positive lifestyle. CBOs provide a range of services to people in local communities, including training and education, offender management programmes, residential accommodation, drug and alcohol treatment programmes. Many of the interventions and programmes provided by CBOs include activities such as art, music, or creative writing. The Probation...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 11 – Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 – State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - the Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 – Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 – National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 -the Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 – Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...done to them. No real explanation was given as to what happened. The doctor treating the person would then send a letter to the person's GP telling that person about it. People were often dispensed drugs or injected with drugs without even being told what was going on. The person's role was merely to submit and to accept all this. This is a different philosophy in which the patient...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Seán Crowe: ...2024 Revised Estimate on Vote 38 for the Department of Health. I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly and the Minister of State with responsibility for public health, well-being and national drugs strategy, Deputy Naughton. I thank them for the provision of a briefing note on the Estimate. Members will have noted the correction notified by the Department of one figure in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (30 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Peadar Tóibín: ...towns across the country and the moment. There are many cases where buildings are dangerous and are falling apart. There are other cases where those buildings are centres of antisocial behaviour, drug-taking and potentially fires as well. There are also cases where businesses are significantly devalued as a result of being next to vacant buildings destroying their towns.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jan 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I want to bring up the issue of the lack of Ozempic, which is a diabetes drug. It is also seen at times as a weight-loss drug. This could be part of the issue. I think there was an issue with production; numbers are down. People with diabetes have told me of their difficulty in getting it. It was brought to my attention by a man who has been a diabetic for 26 years. Seven years ago he...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...and Final Stages) (if not previously concluded, to adjourn either at 10.45 p.m. or after 2 hrs, whichever is the later) Wednesday's private members' business shall be Second Stage of the Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022, selected by People Before Profit-Solidarity. Thursday's business shall be the Research and Innovation Bill 2023 (Second Stage, resumed, if not previously...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Promotion (30 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Tim Lombard: ...talking to fifth- and sixth-class pupils about this issue and about how we can empower them with information about what vaping could potentially do to their bodies. It is basically inhaling a chemical drug of some nature, and there is nicotine tagged onto that. The majority, over 50% of them, will be involved in smoking going forward. We need a real strategy for our primary school...

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

Sharon Keogan: ...or a particular demographic, including families on low incomes, households with special needs such as older persons and people with disabilities, homeless households, and persons in recovery from drug or alcohol addiction or a combination of both. While recognising that many of these bodies are responsible for great work being done, can it really be the case that the operation of 520...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

...would say about conscientious objection is that it is not an either-or decision, or it is not binary. A doctor or a nurse may decide that they would not actually help in physically administering a drug or prescribe one, but they might or might not be willing to do an assessment. They might be willing to say that there are right-to-die associations and they might not. They might make a...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Strategies (30 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Thomas Gould: 109. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the role her Department is taking in the National Drugs Strategy. [3987/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens' Assembly (30 Jan 2024)

Leo Varadkar: ...to establishing four Citizens’ Assemblies, on the topics of Biodiversity Loss; the type of directly elected mayor and local government structures best suited for Dublin; Matters relating to Drugs Use; and the Future of Education. With the publication last week of the Citizens’ Assembly report on Matters relating to Drugs Use, three of the four Citizens’ Assemblies...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Consultations (30 Jan 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ....Increase public awareness around the return of devices for responsible recycling.On 25 November 2023, Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, and Minister for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drug Strategy, Hildegarde Naughton, launched a public consultation to help inform future regulation of tobacco and nicotine inhaling products such as e-cigarettes or “vapes”....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...an online survey and a request for submissions, ran from November 2021 until January 2022. More than 5,000 responses were received. These included responses from Alcohol Action Ireland; Ballymun Local Drugs and Alcohol Task Force; The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland; The Health Service Executive Alcohol Programme; Institute of Public Health; Irish Community Action on Alcohol Network...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 424. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the overall allocation to drugs units in each county in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [4137/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services (30 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...extremely low in the adult population across the EU. Data on adolescent use of nicotine pouches in Ireland will be collected as part of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD) in 2024. The sale of snus is illegal in Ireland. It is prohibited under the European Union (Manufacture, Presentation and Sale of Tobacco and Related Products) Regulations 2016 ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medical Cards (30 Jan 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...diabetes mellitus; parkinsonism; epilepsy; phenylketonuria; haemophilia; spina bifida; hydrocephalus; and conditions arising from the use of Thalidomide. Under the LTI Scheme, patients receive drugs, medicines, and medical and surgical appliances directly related to the treatment of their illness, free of charge. While there are currently no plans to extend the list of conditions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (30 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...conviction to a class D fine. The head reflects the thrust of the Private Member’s Bill that was introduced into the Seanad by Senator Malcolm Byrne and supported by the Government on Second Stage. Heads 30 and 31 provide for compulsory random drug testing of members of the Defence Forces. This will ensure that there is a robust statutory basis for the existing compulsory random...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (30 Jan 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Helen McEntee: ...spent last year. There is funding to be spent this year in this area, and that is being worked through. It has been sought by the Garda, particularly for dealing with issues like organised crime and drug smuggling. Having the technology and equipment in question will be very beneficial and show our international and European partners we are serious in this regard. On the diversity...

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: ..., we need to remind ourselves why we are doing this and to look at the massively important work being done by charities throughout the island of Ireland. These include those working in healthcare, drug services, homelessness, housing services, rehabilitation, recovery, and providing food and other basic needs to anyone and everyone in our communities. Many of these community and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...indicated that nerve pain and pain generally is the area people are suggesting for expansion. It certainly is an area that could lend itself to the use of medical cannabis. At the moment, the drug is used for severe, refractory epilepsy, spasticity as a result of multiple sclerosis and nausea as a result of chemotherapy. We need a stronger evidence basis for its clinical efficacy. Now...