Results 41-60 of 216 for drugs speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I stopped my contribution because I knew Dr. O'Grady was in a rush. It has been stated that there is evidence that where medicinal cannabis is made available, it has an impact on the use of other drugs and there is some evidence that use of benzodiazepines, opiates and so on has reduced where that is the case. Do the companies that manufacture those products feel threatened by medicinal...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...beneficial and how the two are treated in law and in this debate. Has Professor Finn a comment on this matter? Would it be fair to say that almost all, or certainly the vast majority, of approved drugs for pain and almost every other condition have significant, even severe, side effects in some or a large number of cases, yet they are authorised nonetheless? Is there evidence to suggest...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Pharmacies throughout the country dispense methadone, which is a very dangerous drug. It is highly illegal for anybody to have possession of methadone that is not prescribed and given out under controlled conditions by pharmacies. Is it enforced well? How is it enforced? We know there is leakage with methadone that gets sold on in the black market and so on. That could be just as easily...

Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...for the Government to oppose this amendment and to then, very likely, make the opposite argument in a few weeks' time when we come to debate another area of decriminalisation around particular drugs, during which the Government will argue for caution, monitoring and so on and so forth. I think the Minister should seriously consider this amendment and accept it. There is nothing to...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta) 2017: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: First Stage (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in Dún Laoghaire. However, she told me this morning it is only until 7 April, when she will be left insecure again. Will she be put into squalid tenement housing, as some people are, or accommodation with chronic damp, full of drug users, as others have been? Alternatively, will the State have a legal obligation to give her a secure roof over her head? What about child welfare?...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Products Regulatory Authority (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...is funded; the proportion of that funding which is from pharmaceutical companies; the measures taken by his Department to prevent undue influence by the pharmaceutical industry on HPRA decisions on drug policy and appointments to the HPRA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14076/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...authorities similar to the one included in Deputy Gino Kenny's proposal and are developing specific expertise. Those regimes make a distinction between cannabis and other pharmaceutical-type drugs. It was a political decision. At the very least, we need to debate which is the better option and hear arguments on both sides instead of just one view. Other countries which are just as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...cannabis use have very little to do with what we are discussing here, which is about medicinal use. Is it not the case, as alluded to by Professor Finn, that we have a whole range of authorised drugs at the moment where the adverse side effects - there is strong evidence of this - are as bad as, or in many cases much worse than, any evidence we have for adverse effects from medicinal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...on it but, as we are concluding, it would be helpful to clarify or acknowledge that the job of the HPRA is, as I understand it, to work within certain EU directives and frameworks to approve a drug to be used an dispensed. As I understand it, it is not about deciding the efficacy of a particular product for a particular patient. I think that is an important distinction and perhaps those...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (21 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...children came to me. She is trying to overcome addiction issues and she is clean. Yet the emergency services tried to shove her back into emergency accommodation in town where there are active drug users. Instead of going in to that environment, she is now elsewhere. We mentioned Luggala earlier. I will not say exactly where the woman is, but she is camping in a national park in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to know whether the committee has or will discuss several very specific areas of housing. People who do not have drug or drink problems, or who are trying to recover from alcohol or drug problems and are clean of them, are being put in emergency accommodation with active drug users or people with addiction problems. I am dealing with several cases of this nature at present. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Products Regulatory Authority (6 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to raise concerns or make complaints regarding beliefs concerning widespread malpractice and policy failure in the health service, in the area of medical research and the trial use of certain drugs, or similar medical or drug related research undertaken by other areas in the public service such as the education sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38433/16]

Cannabis for Medicinal Use (Regulations) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...some of its benefits. That should not be the case. There are concerns about the possible adverse effects of cannabis, but the truth is that there are multiple concerns about all sorts of other drugs that are already legally available. As Deputy Gino Kenny said, there is no known instance of a fatal overdose from the use of cannabis or cannabis-based products. That cannot be said about...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Data (22 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 431. To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the National Centre for Pharmaco-Economics report that the drug Orkambi prolongs life by a median 7.4 years, 2.45 QALY and the cost-effectiveness threshold of €30,000 per annum, if he will advise of the average cost and lowest cost per annum charged for the drug in the EU; if the HSE will make an offer to the manufacturer in view of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (27 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 130. To ask the Minister for Health the action he is taking to address the delay in negotiating a price for the life-saving drug Orkambi; if he will put a cap on the price of newly released drugs in the national interest; the strategy the Government is taking to deal with the issue of overcharging for medication here in general, and for newly released drugs for specific conditions in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (27 Sep 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 762. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of abolishing drug prescription charges. [27484/16]

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in Dublin city. He has a walking frame. He has no rolling bed and cannot leave his belongings in the hostel during the day. He must walk around, on his walking frame, with his belongings every day. Thomas is another pensioner who is sleeping rough in Dún Laoghaire because he will not go into Dublin city and stay in hostels with drugs and drink. He is afraid of the city. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (12 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 68. To ask the Minister for Health if there is evidence available that the rescheduling of b​enzodiazepines or ​Z​ drugs could​ prevent the misuse of dangerous or harmful drugs; the specific requests the Garda made to him regarding the rescheduling of these drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20705/16]

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...failed policy approach that has brought us to the fairly sorry pass we are now at. In a way, it is also the worst sort of opportunism in that it plays politics with deadly serious issues such as drug addiction and gangland crime. The bizarre response to that can only really be explained by knee-jerk political opportunism, combined with a complete failure to understand the flaws in the...

Summer Economic Statement 2016: Statements (Resumed) (23 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...pulled in a whole range of areas, an ongoing crisis in our accident and emergency departments, waiting lists and so on. When one factors in the pressures of a rising population and rising demand, the cost of drugs and all the rest of it, in reality what the Government is proposing in terms of health expenditure simply will not deal with the level of prices we are facing. Last night,...