Results 81-100 of 216 for drugs speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Drugs Scheme (6 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 322. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene with the Health Service Executive to ensure that Fampridine, Fampyra, which helps multiple sclerosis patients, is included on the Community Drugs Scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17462/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Remit: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (11 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...told there is nothing for them and to sleep in the car for the weekend, or they are placed in completely unsuitable environments such as hotels or emergency hostel accommodation with people with drug problems. This week I spoke to a young woman with two young special needs children who was placed in a hotel. After she walked through the door, she was offered heroin by the first person...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... This Bill relates to young people who are in State care and are then released from State care and have nothing. Many of them have no supports and many find a direct route into homelessness and drug and alcohol problems, and we find them on our streets. Could the Taoiseach tell us when the aftercare Bill will come to this House?

Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (23 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... I can certainly see the value of that. The bigger context for much of this debate is the scandalous manner in which big pharmaceutical companies have used patent restrictions on life-saving drugs, such as AIDS anti-viral drugs, to prevent countries in the developing world from producing cheap generic versions of those drugs. Huge struggles and campaigns have been organised by people...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...problems the fear is he may not take his shots and if he does not do so he could die. He was released and put in emergency housing in Dún Laoghaire that is overwhelmingly populated by people with chronic drug or alcohol problems. When he arrived with his family and saw where he had to stay he was stricken with fear. On seeing his reaction his family worried he might keel over and...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of cases in which people who have offered the address of a sister or a brother have problems because this is not acceptable. For example, a guy in Dún Laoghaire who is from the town has a bad drug problem but is trying to kick drugs. There is no place for him in Bentley House, the homeless accommodation centre in Dún Laoghaire. As a result, he is sent into town to find...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of the State and of its obligations to children than to have those children homeless and living in the most inappropriate situations imaginable in hostels on the other side of the city with chronic drug and alcohol users and on housing lists for 15 years while being buffeted from one place to another with no security? Let us imagine what this does to the welfare, psychology and emotional...

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...know that front-line services are crumbling? Could he explain how this is logical, justified and fair when everybody knows that what we need are nurses, ambulances, new equipment, primary care centres and drugs that are affordable for people. We need the actual service that keeps people alive and healthy. That is where we need to put the money into but as with Irish Water and waste...

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...not have a roof over their heads, they cannot function properly within society. How can one pursue educational opportunities, access employment, maintain one's mental health or avoid developing drugs or drink problems if one does not have a secure roof over one's head? It is the most basic consideration and if the Government cannot deliver this for its citizens, then it is unworthy of...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...children across the city to school in Shankill. Another example is Peter, a young man I spoke to today. He has mental illness problems but for three years he has been in homeless accommodation with drug users and people with chronic alcohol problems. There are tens of thousands of other people on housing waiting lists for ten to 14 years. The Government has done nothing about this....

Other Questions: Universal Health Insurance White Paper (26 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the paper is in draft form and the details are sketchy, it could cost €5 billion. We could be talking about an annual cost of €1,672 per person. There is even talk of €700 per year in drugs costs for medical card holders. These are terrifying figures. Will the Minister comment on them? From where do they come from and what does the Minister have to say about these...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...film that dramatises those issues very well. It showed how people were subject to abuse in particular situations. The film was set in the United States and showed how people were force-fed drugs they probably did not need, subjected to forced electrotherapy and so on. It was a shocking dramatisation of the potential for abuse where people are categorised as being mentally or physically...

Topical Issue Debate: Homelessness Strategy (3 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the rent caps. The policy is a joke and cannot work. The cap is driving people into homelessness. As Cathal Morgan said, this does not affect just the traditional categories, of people with drug addiction or mental health problems. People, as a direct result of not being able to pay the rents demanded, are being driven into homelessness. What does the Minister of State propose to do...

Cannabis Regulation: Motion [Private Members] (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...opponents of the motion say. I presume it has something to do with health. Let us put a simple fact on the record: there has never been a death in Ireland attributable to cannabis use, not one. "Drugs" is a broad, catch all and almost meaningless term. In what is put under the banner of the label "drugs", virtually every other item leads to deaths, many of which are attributable to the...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...have been hit again and again in a series of measures in the budget. It is nothing short of despicable to leave people in pain in this way. The Government's big plan in health involves delisting drugs, increasing prescription charges, reducing income thresholds for medical cards and what it laughingly calls "probity" - trying to find ways not to give people medical cards. It promised...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Youth Services (9 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...They put it simply that if these cuts go ahead, in many cases they will be forced out on to the streets with nothing to do. It will lead to more confrontation with the police, more temptation to get involved in drugs, drinking and, ultimately, it will cost them, in terms of their lives, and the State to pick up the pieces afterwards. These cuts are utterly counterproductive. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Discussion with Minister for Finance (8 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To expand on the medicinal analogy, the Minister sounds like a drug addict who is in denial, who has got to do something about the problem but continues to give himself lethal injections of the poison that is killing him.

Addiction Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Maureen O'Sullivan for bringing this comprehensive motion forward and highlighting the many important issues it raises. It is timely that such a motion should come forward because alcoholism and drug addiction, particularly heroin addiction, have blighted our society for many years. We are now in an economic recession, with mass unemployment, austerity and cuts being visited in a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Expenditure (26 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the progress made of receiving price reductions on generic drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41013/12]

Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...them, why does the Government not go after the consultants who are doing private work in public hospitals or why does it not go after the multinational companies that are overcharging the HSE for drugs?