Results 101-120 of 19,879 for drugs

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Gerry Horkan: ...car is heavier or full of people, it may be different from negotiating the roads when the car is lighter and only has one person in it. There are many factors, including speeding and the use of drugs, alcohol and mobile phones. We need to revisit the issue. Every debate we have on the matter and every bit more publicity we bring to it is very important. I urge the Leader to arrange for...

Seanad: Community Safety and Investment: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Rebecca Moynihan: ..., can have. I will give an example of where this is not happening. The south-west inner city is an area where the rate of crime has traditionally been. It is an area where many people go to prison and where there is a great deal of drug use. We have no pitches for people to play Gaelic games or football. There are two swimming pools in the area but they are both private and not open...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (28 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: There are three anti-malarial drugs in use by the Defence Forces, namely Lariam (mefloquine), Malarone and Doxycycline. The choice of medication is a medical decision made by Medical Officers in the Defence Forces, having regard to the specific circumstances of the mission and the individual member of the Defence Forces. A Working Group reviewed the Defence Forces approach in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Feb 2024)

Pádraig O'Sullivan: 137. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE’s systems can extract spending on reimbursements in respect of orphan drugs; and if so, the amount spent in this respect in each year 2014-2023 inclusive, in tabular form. [9451/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (28 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...in line with the vision, aims and objectives of Sláintecare. In 2022, a range of measures were delivered including the abolition of public in-patient charges for children, reductions in the Drug Payment Scheme threshold to €80 per month, and the introduction of free contraception for women aged 17-25. In 2023, further measures have facilitated better access to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for People with Epidermolysis Bullosa: Discussion (28 Feb 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

...of money on bandages though not as much as those with the severe forms. However, they may not qualify for the hardship scheme or the medial card but also these bandages are not covered under the drugs payment scheme, so they just have to buy them in their pharmacy. A small tube of Cavilon costs €20. When you are putting Mepilex and Tubifast on top of that then, the costs do add...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

...someone gets a cancer diagnosis, treatment is for the most part equal. People will get there. Some differences exist regarding some of the health insurers reimbursing some of the more expensive drugs that someone would not get through the public system but for the most part, treatment is equal when someone gets that diagnosis. People from poorer backgrounds are getting that diagnosis...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Jack Chambers: ...of a person who, in the opinion of the Garda, was involved in an offence under the Road Traffic Acts, there may be no reason to suspect intoxicant was a factor. However, the law on testing for drugs is different. In all four sets of circumstances, it says that the Garda member "may" conduct a test for drugs. This is not reasonable, particularly as driving under the influence of drugs is...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: ...Given that the Minister was on the verge of something really huge, did she not think that it was not the time to go ahead? By the way, there was plenty to fill the programme. There was the Kerry drugs bust and the Console issue, among others. The makers of "Prime Time" were not stuck for material. The Minister had only appeared on the programme twice in almost four years. Why did the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (27 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: ...includes a strand called ‘Health and Wellbeing’. The learning outcomes of this strand include that students should be able to ‘explore the factors that influence mental health and wellbeing, including the influence of family, peers, societal attitudes, media, technology, alcohol and drugs, and one’s sense of self’, to ‘recognise unhelpful thinking...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug and Alcohol Testing (27 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 326. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of learner drivers who were detected drink driving each year, from 2020 to date in 2024; the number convicted in court for this offence; the number who were issued with a fixed penalty notice for drink driving; the number who paid the FCPN within the time limit, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (27 Feb 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. Statutory Instrument No. 277 of 1971, put a limitation on Section...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Feb 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 594. To ask the Minister for Health if the new drug Veoza will be available in Ireland on the drugs payment scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9188/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Alcohol Sales (22 Feb 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...of alcohol. As part of the development of this Bill, I held consultations in November 2021. We had more than 5,000 responses, including responses from Alcohol Action Ireland, the Ballymun Local Drugs and Alcohol Task Force, the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, the Health Service Executive alcohol programme, the Institute of Public Health, the Irish Community Action on Alcohol...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (22 Feb 2024)

Mark Ward: ...list waiting for social housing. That council's process is that it seeks some sort of Garda vetting, or some sort of okay from a superintendent, that the person moving in has not got a record. Drug charges or violence are usually the two things they look for in that regard. I ask for some sort of cross-departmental co-operation to see if there is any assistance we can give the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug Dealing (22 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 16. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a breakdown by age of people who have been given a ten-year mandatory sentence for drugs issues over the past decade. [8222/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Substance Misuse (22 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Gino Kenny: 18. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a regional breakdown of where charges for possession of a controlled drug for personal use have been issued in the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8325/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (22 Feb 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...this work. It is generally recognised that prostitution is inherently exploitative of vulnerable persons, mainly women and girls, and that many people are forced into prostitution through trafficking, drug addiction, homelessness and poverty. A key purpose for the 2017 Sexual Offences Act was to provide additional protection to persons involved in prostitution, especially vulnerable...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (22 Feb 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...in developing a community safety plan in each local authority area. It will allow each partnership to deal with issues of community safety which are not strictly within the criminal justice system (e.g. drug misuse, youth services, public lighting, integration and diversity issues). The Community Safety Plan will be a matter for each Partnership once established. In order to inform the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Substance Misuse (22 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Gino Kenny: 34. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many minors or people aged under 18 years have been charged with possession of a controlled drug for personal use for each of the year 2017 to 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8324/24]