Results 21-40 of 616 for drugs speaker:Bernard Durkan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...about how many of our emergency departments are grossly overcrowded, some with non-emergency requirements. That needs to be dealt with as well. Patients need to be segregated so that those who have a drug or alcohol problem get treatment but they go in one particular direction or another and are dealt with. Then there are patients who are there for another purpose, many of whom are in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 325. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which persons in need of drug rehabilitation programmes have access to same, with a view to reducing their dependency on drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49243/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...to be addressed. Whatever measures necessary have to be taken to ensure an adequate supply in the marketplace, now, not in six months or a year, but now. The other one is to ensure that the new drugs coming onstream, which can make a huge contribution, should be made available as quickly as possible by the health service. It is not acceptable that we wait until the end of the winter...

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...departments. I spoke previously in the House about delivering a patient to an accident and emergency department. The accident and emergency department was crowded with people who had alcohol and drug addictions. They are correctly entitled to their treatment and should get it. That is the appropriate place in the whatever room is available in that particular institution. However, they...

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...what we do now. Notwithstanding the continuing surveillance of the legislation and its impact, and in this context the various shapes of the ingredients and what form they might take, given the drug industry we have also experienced here, let us not forget that children are being targeted all the time in national schools and in second-level schools. We must, therefore, regard this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (11 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts currently being made to discourage young people from becoming involved in a life of crime including drugs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44444/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (11 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the degree to which An Garda Síochána continue to have sufficient resources at their disposal to meet the threats of organised crime and drug/people trafficking notwithstanding the recent spectacular success in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44452/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (11 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 172. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she remains satisfied that adequate surveillance resources have been allocated to An Garda Síochána to combat the threat of drug and people trafficking; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44453/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...the extent to which the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps are sufficiently equipped in terms of technology, military hardware and any other requirements needed to address the ongoing threats from drug smugglers or others who seek to breach the laws of the State from the sea, air or by land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42799/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...emergency departments of major hospitals where many patients were in urgent need of attention and clearly suffering severe pain. In the front row of these departments was a variety of people suffering drug and alcohol overdoses. They dominated the waiting areas to such an extent that other patients, young, old and middle-aged, were intimidated into waiting in the back row. After the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: There are different places to deal with different types of patents seeking admission. If a person is involved in a drug or alcohol fight, the day before, the hour before or whatever then that is something that is not anticipated but it has to be dealt with somewhere. There is an appropriate place to deal with them and it is not at the accident and emergency unit mixed up with all the other...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (11 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which she continues to provide adequate resources to enable An Garda Síochána to adequately police organised crime, including drug running, trafficking or other similar activities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33972/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (11 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 539. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which drug rehabilitation and educational classes are available throughout the prison service, with particular reference to first-time offenders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34344/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (11 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 541. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons currently in drug rehabilitation programmes in prison; the number of prisoners awaiting access to such programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34347/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Jul 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 850. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people, other than those in prison, currently involved in drug rehabilitation programmes; the extent of the programmes, whether first-time involvement or not in such programme; the number of persons who have been involved in such programmes more than once or more than five programmes in the past twelve months; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (1 Jun 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 32. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which persons in need of drug rehabilitation programmes have access to same, with a view to reducing their dependency on drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26658/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gangland Crime (25 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 216. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which membership of criminal gangs or those associated with drug crimes have decreased/increased in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25512/23]

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: ...anymore in hundreds of thousands or millions of euro but in billions of euro, and that is a clear indication as to where we are going. A common thread runs through this entire issue, namely, drugs. The drugs issue has to be dealt with, yet we are incapable as a society of dealing with it. The longer it goes on, the worse it gets and the more powerful these gangs become. I listened...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 391. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he remains focused on enabling rehabilitation and methadone treatments for those who have been adversely affected by drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18853/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Apr 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 392. 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 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. [18854/23]