Results 61-80 of 216 for drugs speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 576. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence why the Defence Forces use the anti-malaria drug Larium, despite its known side-effects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17054/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 577. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will justify the enforcement of the use of the anti-malaria drug, Larium, which has serious side effects, by the Defence Forces abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17055/16]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be opposing this motion. Let us state it boldly as it is: the war on drugs has failed and the war on gangland criminality via the Special Criminal Court or other repressive legislation has failed. We are just as concerned as the Minister and, in many cases I suspect, more concerned in that some of the Deputies on the left represent some of the poorest and most disadvantaged areas...

Adjournment Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (2 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...is aware that in the past few weeks, we have had two instances where people who are ill, often with life-threatening illnesses or seriously disabling illnesses, are not able to access certain drugs because of price, rather than the question of their medical efficacy or how they could help people who are sick, suffering or, in some cases, in life-threatening situations. That is just not...

Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (2 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...from what they do in order to develop the skills base and knowledge to begin to build up our own indigenous industrial capacity? We self-evidently are not doing so. I will raise the issue of drugs and medicine on the Adjournment later today. We have the capacity now to develop our own industry in the area of medicine and drugs, which could save the State and the health service in...

Health Care Committee Establishment: Motion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...68 billion is going in household, out-of-pocket payments, mostly in private health insurance which is going into the pockets of the private health industry. Another €2.7 billion is spent on pharmaceuticals and drugs. Therefore, an extra €5 billion is being spent on unnecessary administration or going into the profits of for-profit health services, whether in the production...

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the other side as a different person and may be in a position to look after his or her children. Perhaps the parent secured a home and his or her mental health improved as a result. A person with drug or other addiction problems who is housed will be in a better position to obtain treatment, achieve rehabilitation and so forth. However, an adoption may already have taken place. In such...

Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. We have seven and a half minutes each. It goes without saying that gangland violence, feuds, executions, armed attacks, terrorising communities, violent turf wars to control the drugs trade and all the accompanying evils that go with this sort of gangland violence should be condemned utterly and we should seek to eliminate them. However, I have heard little in the way of actual...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (20 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...there is a formal or informal policy operating within the health and emergency services of refusing care to mental health and suicidal cases if the individual is under the influence of alcohol or drugs. [7764/16]

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I nominate Deputy Coppinger not because we are interested in personalities, the drug of power or political position, but because we want to use this opportunity to highlight the issues that matter to our citizens and that every single Deputy in this House has a responsibility to address urgently. The two biggest parties, which are in a position to form a Government, should stop messing...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...save it, the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael parties have left this country in a political wilderness. However, they are not contemplating how they can save humanity but rather how they can pursue the drug of power and political office, without any concern for the substantial issues that affect ordinary citizens in this country. Most shamefully of all, the background to that political...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (13 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 666. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the Health Service Executive and his Department spent on the drug Ritaline and on all psychoactive medication used by children, by generic drug and brand name in each year of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1270/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Youth Services Funding (15 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...2015, why the Health Service Executive has decided to wind down the oasis project at Mounttown Community Facility, why this long-standing community project was not deemed appropriate to deal with drug and alcohol addiction for local young persons, how extensive was the consultation in making this decision, if oasis project workers or service users were involved in this process; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Funding (15 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 415. To ask the Minister for Health why the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Drug and Alcohol Task Force removed its funding from the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown Outreach Project service and allocated its funding to the Community Addiction Team, why one service was seen as more appropriate than the other for the tender, the process regarding how this decision was made, the persons who were...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Funding (15 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 416. To ask the Minister for Health the obligations the successful tender applicants must meet in respect of funding from the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Drug and Alcohol Task Force for the provision of drug and alcohol addiction services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44943/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (15 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 468. To ask the Minister for Health the annual amount he and the Health Service Executive spend on the drug Ritalin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45315/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cystic Fibrosis Treatment (15 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 469. To ask the Minister for Health given the reports of the cost of the new Cystic Fibrosis drug, if he will provide comparatives of costs for other drugs used across his Department and the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45316/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (6 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 587. To ask the Minister for Health given recently expressed concern regarding inappropriate prescribing of psychotropic drugs to older or disabled patients, the arrangements his Department has put in place to monitor the appropriateness of the rapidly increasing prescription of psychotropic drugs for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34652/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to commission any reviews on the over-use of drugs in mental health and disability services for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27668/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Health considering his Department's concerns regarding the over-use of drugs with elderly and adult patients, if he has similar concerns regarding children in mental health and disability services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27667/15]