Results 21-40 of 216 for drugs speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Exemptions (11 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 136. To ask the Minister for Finance if the drugs Nivolumab and Pembrolizumab will be made VAT exempt and tax allowable in circumstances in which a patient has no option but to self-fund these drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51695/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in Dún Laoghaire are not allowed to self-accommodate. I do not see why single people should not be allowed to self-accommodate if the alternative is to go into a hostel where there are active drug users. The person might be a recovering drug user. If there is no suitable and appropriate accommodation for a homeless person, whether single or whether he or she has a family, he or she...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in the area from where they live close to their family members and on and that they would not have to traipse all the way into town. It is particularly self-evident in cases where that person does not have a drug habit or is recovering from a drug or alcohol problem. However, that person is being told they cannot self-accommodate in Dún Laoghaire, even though they can find a place,...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...gone there because at least in that estate she feels safe. She served eight years in the Irish Army and now she is homeless. As a result of a medical condition, she has to use Lyrica patches, which means it is dangerous for her to go into hostels where there is active drug use because that medication is sought after by active drug users. The only accommodation she is being offered is a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (10 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 537. To ask the Minister for Health if the approval of the drugs Nivolumab and Pembrolizumab will be expedited in order to prolong the life of certain cancer patients and in particular in the case of a person (details supplied); if they will be made VAT exempt and tax allowable in the circumstances in which a patient has no option but to self fund these drugs; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (28 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...) is in part the reason for the resignation of three consultant psychiatrists in the south east; his plans to carry out an audit of the number of children that are being prescribed psychostimulant drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28385/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...are not adequate. There are not enough staff, resources and primary care services. Too many people are being referred to the psychiatrists. Essentially, they are under pressure to prescribe drugs. If they do not want to do that because their clinical judgment is that they should not do so, they get into trouble with managers who just want to tick boxes. That is what is going on. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...as we speak. She has been told there are no hotels available and there are no hubs. If there is a place for everybody, please offer her a place and please do not offer her a place infested with drug users and people with alcohol or other problems. I ask the Minister about another family I am dealing with who have six children. To give the background, they have been on the housing...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (14 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...people who were there. Two young women who are pregnant were there. They are homeless. They are being told by the council that they have to go to Brú Aimsir Hostel, where there are many active drug users. They have letters from social workers saying the suggestion is completely unsuitable for pregnant women. The latest response we have received is that when they are seven months...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... As if it is not bad enough that their lives are in danger or that, when they ring an emergency number, they cannot get accommodation which they are not terrified to go into because of the drug use and alcohol problems in hostels and the fear that their clothes and goods will be stolen, meaning they are forced to sleep on the street, they then have to face the humiliation and indignity...

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...so widely available in the countries in question as to make diversion insignificant. We have diversion with prescription painkillers, yet the Minister has not banned them. We have diversion of opiate based drugs, even though their use is not based on the prescriptions given. The Minister has not banned those drugs or argued that they cannot be regulated, as he has argued in the case of...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, is being allocated to mental health. The Government is crowing about prescription charges being slightly reduced. In 2008, prescription charges were 50 cent and next year they will be €2. That is still €1.50 more than in 2008. In the drugs payment scheme, the Government has reduced the threshold from €144 to €134 - big deal....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (20 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 521. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider funding the drug Vimizin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39794/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Data (26 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1060. To ask the Minister for Health the amount it would cost to reduce the DPS, drugs payment scheme, threshold to €132, €100 and €50, respectively. [36355/17]

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...those basic needs were satisfied and, in so far as people had mental health issues, he was the first to understand the talking cure. That is basic interaction between human beings, not pills or drugs - I am not saying they do not have some role - not nails in the head, not incarceration but to talk, one human being to another or a few human beings together, in order that there is real...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...not requiring consultants? Could they confirm that consultants have no legal status in Irish law? Could they tell us how many people die from products that are authorised pain killers or other drugs authorised by the HPRA, specifically benzodiazepines and opiates, every year in Ireland? That would be useful. Following that, could they then tell us how many people are known to have died...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of access programme in other countries but he did not answer my question. What will the Department's access programme do for the unmet need whereby people do not get pain relief from existing drugs? I put it to him that the programme will leave them out in the cold and label them criminals if they attempt to access the product. I asked the witnesses whether they thought it acceptable...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...is ridiculous box-ticking with the objective of getting everybody out of hotels by July. Does the Taoiseach know where they go? They go onto the street or into hubs in town that are full of addiction and drug use. The strategy is failing disastrously and the Taoiseach will not admit it. Will the Taoiseach do what Mr. Edmund Honohan advocated and start a compulsory purchase programme...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...tell them that his housing policies are working. Tell Sinead and her three year old daughter, who was told a few weeks ago to go 12 km into town with her children to a hostel where there are active drug users. She then had to fight to get into a hotel and last week was taken into hospital with stress because she is still homeless. Tell James and his family - a mother and their five...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of possible side effects and unintended consequences, the leakage effect and so on. My question is to the experts. What is their opinion of the potential of all of those to happen with existing drugs, even drugs sold over the counter? For example, Solpadeine, which is sold over the counter, has serious side effects and the potential for addiction, misuse and so on yet that product is...