Results 41-60 of 89 for drugs speaker:Pearse Doherty

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drugs Seizures (18 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 174. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the amount, in value, of illegal drugs seized in each of the past five years. [24328/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Drugs Seizures (11 Jun 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of illegal drugs destroyed by the Customs and Excise for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22711/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (6 May 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 383. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review or alter the payment system for drugs, currently in operation as part of the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17774/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drugs Seizures (15 Apr 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 356. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 393 of 31 March 2015, the value of illegal drugs awaiting destruction, currently in the possession of An Garda Síochána. [14349/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Disability Legislation Terminology (1 Apr 2015)

Pearse Doherty: ...very emotive and poignant for many people throughout the State. The Health Act 1970 acknowledges the moral imperative of the health services to make arrangements for the supply without charge of drugs, medicines and medical and surgical appliances to people suffering from prescribed diseases and disabilities of a long-term nature, in effect establishing the HSE administered long-term...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drugs Seizures (31 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 393. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the value of illegal drugs destroyed has dropped each year since 2010, from €14,930,279.80 in 2010 to €404,153 in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13095/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (10 Feb 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 389. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made by the Health Service Executive to include the drug Daxas in the community drugs scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5456/15]

Finance Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (25 Nov 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...we are talking about. What we are talking about is the Minister's record on inequality. I refer to the consistent cuts, for example, in Traveller education and support, in tackling the scourge of drugs, in particular, in the capital city, in services for people with disabilities and access to front-line services. I also refer to taking away the medical card from children with...

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...debt, but the debt to GDP ratio is reducing. The Minister should be completely factual and tell Parliament that part of the reason for that is because the services of pimps, prostitutes and pedlars of drugs, along with some other funds, came to rescue the GDP figures this year. That is why GDP has increased by €10 billion, along with research and development and that is the cause...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (16 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 162. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made by the Health Service Executive to include the drug Eculizumab in the community drugs scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39583/14]

Betting (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (17 Jul 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...did not hesitate to increase VAT to 23%. It did not hesitate to increase excise duty on alcohol and cigarettes. It did not hesitate to increase prescription charges or increase the threshold for the drugs repayment scheme. However, when it comes to these other sectors, which are relatively painless and could bring in millions of euro to the Exchequer, we have nothing but hesitation,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance (18 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...is applied - who pays the price. The CSO is reportedly looking at our data in terms of GDP. This will include illegal trade areas. The CSO will include in its June figures prostitution, drugs, pornography and other activities within the economy that will boost our GDP. Some have suggested that this would boost our GDP by close to 1%, which would have the effect of reducing the...

Guerin Report: Statements (15 May 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...he now had more faith in the confidential recipient process and was going to arrange a meeting. That meeting took place today. Garda Keith Harrison claims that as a result of arresting a member of the drugs unit in Athlone for drunk driving, that Garda management maliciously set out targeting him while the arrested garda was afforded protection by Garda management. He claims that a...

Order of Business (30 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: I just want to say at the start that I was a bit disappointed by the joking nature of the Taoiseach's comments about drug dealing in this city.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (15 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 605. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug Daxas will no longer be available to medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17636/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Goods Regulation (1 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 565. To ask the Minister for Health the average time a pharmacoeconomic evaluation of a drug takes. [15202/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Licensing (25 Mar 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 1112. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the Health Service Executive's assessment of the drug nalmefeme, or Selincro; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13628/14]

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...to the same hard-pressed families and asked for more such as hikes in excise duties; cuts to maternity benefit - the second time mothers have been hit - cuts to illness benefits and a 7% cut in the drugs initiative. I congratulate the Tánaiste on that one. What is the Government's reason for the cut to the telephone allowance? They have cut the benefits for old-age pensioners hard...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (14 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 659. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including pirfenidone on the drug payment scheme for sufferers of lung fibrosis; if he will confirm that is the only drug available to treat patients with idiopathic lung fibrosis; and when the Health Service Executive will conclude its negotiations with the manufacturer [22656/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (12 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Health further to a report in a Sunday newspaper which suggested that generic drugs and medicines here cost as much as 24 times more than the same medicines in Britain, the research undertaken by his Department or by the Competition Authority in this area and the steps he will take to ensure that drugs and medicines are sold at reasonable prices here. [12634/13]