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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (17 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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (17 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Stephen Donnelly: The legislative basis for the MCAP is Statutory Instrument 262/2019, Misuse Of Drugs (Prescription And Control Of Supply Of Cannabis For Medical Use) Regulations 2019. Schedule 2 of the Regulations sets out the three specified therapeutic indications that may be treated under the programme, namely, 1. Spasticity associated with multiple sclerosis resistant to all standard therapies and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (14 Dec 2023)

Colm Burke: ...over 65 have certain vulnerabilities and we need to identify those as well and have a vaccine available. The way forward is to have a vaccine programme available. The medication is there, the drugs are now there and they have been approved. It is now about moving on and using them effectively. In real terms, doing a vaccination programme means there are real cost savings for the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Paul McAuliffe: I also want to mark the anniversary of Private Seán Rooney. I think all of our thoughts are with the families of peacekeepers who are separated from their loved ones this Christmas. The drugs task force co-ordinator position in Finglas and Cabra has been a funded post for many decades. A vacancy has arisen because the co-ordinator passed away. The recruitment process is under...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...to free GP care in the history of the State, including an expansion of free GP care to children aged under eight and people earning no more than the median household income. We have reduced the drugs payment scheme costs, funded diagnostic scans for patients and agreed a new consultant contract to which approximately 1,000 consultants have already signed up. Regarding medical card...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Citizens' Assembly (14 Dec 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

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’...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Citizens' Assembly (14 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: ...for Government commits to establishing a Citizens’ Assembly on the Future of Education ensuring that the voices of young people and those being educated are central. The Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use recently held its final meeting and the final report from this assembly is scheduled to be published in due course. The establishment of the Citizens’ Assembly on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...in the country, i.e. full eligibility (medical card holders) and limited eligibility (all others). Adults with full eligibility can access a range of services including GP services, prescribed drugs and medicines, public in-patient hospital services, including consultants’ services, out-patient public hospital services including consultants’ services, dental, ophthalmic and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)

...by 13.5%, which was much faster and stronger than other parts of the UK. However, in the middle of that was the pandemic. Northern Ireland came to the response to the pandemic in terms of testing, drugs, etc., so our productivity growth on the face of it is very good but it is actually distorted because of that pandemic period. What has distorted it are the things we have made with our...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (13 Dec 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: ...Senator Lynn Ruane - The need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on the removal of the barriers to access to Naloxone, a medication used to temporarily reverse the effects of opioid drugs. Senator Robbie Gallagher - The need for the Minister for Finance to make a statement on the enhanced reporting requirements to Revenue due to commence in January 2024; and if the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (13 Dec 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Lynn Ruane: ...will see that as a great thing because it is reducing the amount of opioids coming out of a country and going around the world. However, it then leaves a hole because people will create synthetic drugs to which we are probably not ready to respond or catch up with so everything has a consequence. Unfortunately, in the past few months, we have seen what this consequence is. The fact that...

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...more than in 2019. Approximately 75,000 chemotherapy and other anti-cancer therapies have been administered, and some of those patients are exactly the ones who might benefit from this motion. Over the past two years, 50 new drugs have been approved for cancer patients and total funding allocated for new drugs since 2021 is nearly €100 million, supporting 129 new drugs. There have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I have a particular issue with the idea that kids are only in danger if the danger is imminent, for example, if someone is about to hit them with a hammer. People who use their kids to steal or for drug deals are having their kids around absolute danger. There are a huge number of issues which are not been dealt with. I accept this is beyond the remit of what we are dealing with here, but...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (13 Dec 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...of the Naval Service is to provide a fishery protection service in accordance with our obligations as a member of the EU, it also carries out a number of other non-fishery related tasks including drug interdiction, search and rescue, and maritime defence and security operations (MDSO). The Naval Service has recently adopted an three ship operational posture which sees the P60 class...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reports (13 Dec 2023)

Helen McEntee: ...agencies in developing a community safety plan in each local authority area. It will allow each partnership to deal with issues of safety which are not strictly within the criminal justice system (e.g. drugs, youth services, public lighting, integration and diversity issues). An independent evaluation had been undertaken since the pilot partnerships commenced, and the final report of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Dec 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 248. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on when the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics will approve the drug Palforzia from a company (details supplied), given that the European Medicines Agency has already approved the drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55714/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I have a statement more than a question. Drug dealers and criminals get legal aid. Surely families trying to keep their homes and trying to provide for themselves and their children should be entitled to legal aid.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

...into hospital - and it was not for a day or a week. I am talking about long stays. Lifestyle management is a huge part of this, as is how we live with the disease and how we manage and access drugs. I refer to simple things like generic drugs and the supply chain. I and other cardiovascular patients depend on medicines. I cannot afford to miss one dose or not to take medicine....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

James Browne: ...from An Garda Síochána and the PSNI have highlighted the practical value in the continuing excellent level of co-operation and operational activity between the agencies in tackling various types of crime, be it a drug war, financial or the trafficking of human adults or children. There is excellent co-operation between the two police services.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2023)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...homeless accommodation outside of the place they had their last private rented accommodation. Those reasons include people fleeing domestic violence or difficult family break-ups. They could be fleeing a drug debt or intimidation. We have also had situations where, let us say, people originally from Dublin rented in Wexford, the tenancy broke down, they became homeless and they came...