Results 61-80 of 554 for drugs speaker:Leo Varadkar

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ...for making sure that pharmacists do not hand out these medicines too easily, while the Health Products Regulatory Authority is responsible for the regulation of medicines, including controlled drugs such as these. I am not sure if it is a ministerial or Government decision or a regulatory one but I will look into it and come back to the Deputy in a few weeks with something a bit more solid.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2022)

Leo Varadkar: ...aged 18 and 15 who have been left behind. I want also to express my thanks to the Newell family for being willing to talk about this issue as we do not talk enough about the issue of prescription drug addiction in Ireland. It is a very real problem. It is very sad to see that she started taking painkillers because her endometriosis had not been diagnosed. Endometriosis is frequently...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...do. For families, the tax package will help with the cost of living, with single-income families on average full-time wages benefiting by approximately €400 a year. Reducing hospital charges for children under 18 will be a welcome boost to families in addition to the extension of free GP care to six- and seven-year-olds. Other measures, including the reduction in the drugs...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ..., that it was raised here today and, as suggested by Deputy Collins, I will work with him to resolve the issue and make sure the service is restored. We do not have a date for the citizen's assembly on drug use yet. There are a number of citizen's assemblies planned and it is on the list, so it is to be hoped we get to it soon. On vaccines, internationally we are committing 2 million...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jul 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...believe the criminalisation model works. It leaves people with convictions and makes it harder for them to get on with their lives and to engage with services in order to get the help they need. Drug dealing and drug gangs are very different from what the Deputy is referring to. We both agree on that. As Taoiseach, I set up an expert group to consider the issue. It came to a different...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...annually and additional funding of €50 million provided for new medicines this year will support the introduction of a significant number of new medicines. To date this year, 26 approvals for new drugs and new indications for existing drugs have been made. On Kaftrio, the HSE advises me that, on 26 April, the European Commission approved the EMA’s recommended licence for...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...capacity within these existing pharmaceutical plants to produce COVID-19 vaccines. In recent weeks, a global client of IDA Ireland, Pfizer, announced plans that it is to manufacture a COVID -19 vaccine drug substance at its facility in Dublin. Expansion plans at this site will allow for the extra production that will be part of the global vaccine supply chain network, contributing to the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Jun 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...x20ac;2 million and related grant approval of €7.1 million. Grant draw down in 2020 was in the amount of €2 million. In recent weeks, a global client of IDA announced plans to manufacture a COVID -19 vaccine drug substance at its facility in Dublin. Expansion plans at this site will allow for the extra production that will be part of the global vaccine supply chain...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: IDA Ireland (21 Apr 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...biologic products but there is some targeted vaccine production. The total network of 85 sites includes the following vaccine related operations; - Two sites, which along-side significant biologics mandates, have targeted vaccine drug substance and /or fill finish mandates. - One site where a vaccine facility is currently under construction, scheduled validation in 2022. - Further two...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: IVF treatment and assisted human reproduction treatment are tax deductible at the standard rate and most of the medicines people may need to help them in their treatment are covered under the drug refund scheme. That still leaves couples bearing a very large cost if they need to avail of IVF services. Money has been set aside to help people with the cost of IVF, to do it through the public...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ..., have presented a proposal to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to allow all countries to choose to neither grant nor enforce any patents or other intellectual property rights related to COVID-19 drugs, vaccines and diagnostics for the duration of the pandemic. The proposers argue that this would allow countries to scale up the manufacture of such products. International Trade is a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Intellectual Property (24 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...have presented a proposal to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to allow all countries to choose to neither grant nor enforce any patents and other intellectual property rights related to COVID-19 drugs, vaccines and diagnostics for the duration of the pandemic. The proposers argue that this would allow countries to scale up the manufacture of such products. International Trade is a...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Enterprise Ireland (8 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...Ireland’s position is based on the fact that, while EU regulations permit a threshold of 0.2% of THC in hemp products, products containing any trace of THC are considered as a controlled drug in Ireland under the Misuse of Drugs Orders. In other words, there is no lower limit of THC permissible under national legislation. Therefore, products which can contain even minimal...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Enterprise Ireland (8 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...support, companies using cannabis-based products cannot be approved for grants to businesses.  The policy is based on legislation, that products containing any trace of THC are considered as a controlled drug in Ireland under the Misuse of Drugs Orders.  Currently there is no lower limit of THC permissible under national legislation.  The Local Enterprise Offices are...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Enterprise Ireland (8 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...Ireland’s position is based on the fact that, while EU regulations permit a threshold of 0.2% of THC in hemp products, products containing any trace of THC are considered as a controlled drug in Ireland under the Misuse of Drugs Orders. In effect, there is no lower limit of THC permissible under national legislation. Therefore, products which can contain even minimal levels of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...for years in this Chamber. Emergency arrangements were put in place, which the Deputy mentioned, but we should by now have in place standing arrangements that work for people for whom the drug has been prescribed by a specialist. It is an issue that falls under the remit of the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, rather than me but I will take it up with him. It is an issue we are...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Oct 2020)

Leo Varadkar: Where drug and alcohol task forces work, community representation and involvement makes all the difference. That factor means a task force is not composed of people coming from outside the area and applying a top-down approach. The Deputy is spot on in that regard. I am not across this area in detail any more but I will raise the Deputy's query with the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jul 2020)

Leo Varadkar: I know the drug was approved for use some months ago if not last year. However, the process is not straightforward and this is not just a medicine that can be given to a patient, including children. This must be administered in hospital in a particular way. The Children's Health Ireland group, including the Crumlin hospital, must scale that up over time. It has committed to doing this but...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...workers and home care hours are being redeployed to long-term care. We have an agreement with unions to allow HSE staff to work in nursing homes. It is voluntary, but we are asking people to volunteer to help out and take up posts in nursing homes. The Government has taken a focused approach towards vulnerable groups, including homeless people, Travellers, Roma, drug users, prisoners...