Results 141-160 of 616 for drugs speaker:Bernard Durkan

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug Dealing (3 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 339. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the success of An Garda Síochána over the past three years in combatting drug trafficking; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30426/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (3 Jun 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 344. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of known drug dealers currently on bail in respect of one or more offences; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30431/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: ...deal with the cases on the basis of their necessity and severity and not presume that they will be all right in any event. The new reimbursement system and the authorisation of new and orphan drugs has been an issue for a long time, continues to be an issue and will remain an issue. I appreciate the fact that drug companies should not be allowed to charge what they wish. That has to be...

Covid-19 (Drug and Alcohol Services, and Homelessness): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Ministers of State for coming to the House to speak on this important issue. I speak as a former member of a ministerial drugs task force. I empathise with some of the points raised by people who are directly involved on the ground in dealing with the addiction issues. Very often they have a different perspective than that which we as legislators have. I always saw methadone...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (4 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 229. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which his Department continues to address delays in the approval of new or orphan drugs; the average time taken for approval at present given the urgency of the need for drugs to treat new or rare diseases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6287/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (4 Feb 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 230. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which reduction in the time taken for approval of orphan, new or rare disease drugs has been achieved; if improved levels of reimbursement are being achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6288/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Medicinal Products (27 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 851. To ask the Minister for Health the number of reimbursement applications currently being processed in respect of orphan new drugs; the length of time to deal with individual applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter [4345/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 806. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE drugs group met in December 2020; if not, if it is scheduled to meet; the drugs being considered for reimbursement, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44880/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Jan 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 807. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reimbursement of Onpattro; when the drug will be made available to eligible patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44881/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Security (10 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 364. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the smuggling of drugs into prisons has been curtailed; the ambitions for same in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42819/20]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

Bernard Durkan: .... I ask that the Minister put in place some emergency measures, whether outsourcing to the private sector or something else, to get ahead of that. In the area of mental health services, drug detox services are appalling. I do not blame the Minister for that but I spent recent days trying to access services for people in an emergency situation. The parents are distraught and unable...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 702. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding approval of new or orphan drugs; the number of such drugs awaiting approval in the system; if Covid-19-related drugs are under consideration at present; if access to or reimbursement of Covid-19-related drugs is being expedited at a European or national level, in light of the ongoing pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (11 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: On that same issue of new and orphan drugs and the time taken to progress through the testing process, the double test, comprising the European test and the Irish test, is time-consuming. The second test should be unnecessary if we are equal within the European Union. New drugs are available for which reimbursement is not authorised because they have not been approved. Even when they are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (3 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 1453. To ask the Minister for Health the number of orphan or new drugs currently awaiting approval to qualify for reimbursement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33798/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (22 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the degree to which An Garda Síochána have successfully prosecuted drug gangs; the number of unsuccessful prosecutions in the past five years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32217/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (21 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 236. To ask the Minister for Health if prescription drugs ramilo for blood pressure and stugeron for vertigo are covered on a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31884/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Sep 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which drug trafficking has been successfully curtailed throughout the Covid-19 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23246/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (16 Jun 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 332. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested and-or charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and-or drugs in each of the past six months to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10797/20]

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Bernard Durkan: ...there is no space and they do not want them. I do not wish to have a written reply, but at a later stage we should have a debate on this very important issue. My last point concerns organised crime and the drugs business, which has already been mentioned. I believe there is no way to deal with that issue through the community. The kingpins of the organised criminal gangs have to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bernard Durkan: ...; my last question is coming up. I insist on having parity will all my peers, which can be difficult from time to time. The Chairman might not remember I was a member of the first ministerial drugs task force a long time ago. We seem to have drifted away from the original purpose of the exercise. At that time methadone was a means to an end. Now it seems to be an end in itself which...