Results 21-40 of 186 for drugs speaker:Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 571. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is sponsoring a vaccination campaign for a vaccination against shingles; if so, if the vaccination is available on the medical card and or drug payment scheme; and if not, if he will consider adding it to those schemes. [42173/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (26 Sep 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 509. To ask the Minister for Health what measures he will take to increase the awareness of the danger for abuse and misuse of the drug pregabalin among the medical community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40993/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (21 Sep 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...lift that for years has been in and out of service. Thirteen years on, the stairwell and lift have fallen into massive disrepair and when it has been working it is often filled with urine, faeces, drug paraphernalia and vomit. Badly lit at night, the stairwell has become a hub for antisocial behaviour and a hang-out spot for gangs of young adults and regular drug use, resulting in...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...anti-racism, anti-poverty and anti-addiction tools we have. Listen to the words of Sherriff Street's Olivia O'Toole. She has 130 caps and 54 goals for Ireland. She saw at first hand how heroine was ripping her community apart in the 1980s and 1990s. She said: When I was around 13, my sister would have been 16 or 17, and I could see her disintegrating before my eyes because of drugs...

Youth Justice Strategy: Statements (21 Jun 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...areas in this House because I do not like the reputational damage or the stigmatising that goes with that. However, I cannot hear what they are saying to me without raising it with the Minister of State. The issue of drugs has been referenced and it is a live issue. In fairness to the Government, it has raised the profile of the debate around drugs. As it is holding a...

Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...give you respect, easy money, cars, jewellery and other trappings of influence and power. Also, sensing the fear that other people feel when you are around can be quite intoxicating. There is the drug-based intimidation that happens, and certain troubled families in certain communities enjoy that fear. They enjoy the sense of intimidation that people feel when they interact with them....

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...He is part of the Northside Partnership young community leaders group which has made a number of presentations recently to me and to the Lord Mayor on vaping, the reform of the leaving certificate and drug use in its community. He is here with the ambition hopefully to come back as a Deputy in future years. I hope that he enjoys the debate today. As the Minister knows, the main...

Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...is so empowering and you get respect from it. Our prisons are full of people who got involved in it for one reason or another. We had 1,000 prisoners about 40 years ago. We have 4,000 now. The reason for the difference is drug crime, in the main. In fairness to this Government, it has initiated a Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use but we are going to have to be honest about how we can...

Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...(“spiking”) 20.The Act of 1997 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 12: “12A.(1) A person who administers to or causes to be taken by another person (‘C’) a drug or other substance- (a) knowing that C does not consent to what is being done, and (b) with intent thereby to stupefy or overpower C so as to enable himself or...

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...but poor people, we would have done something before now. I say with all sincerity that if the body count was of cattle, we would have done something by now. The people who die as a result of drug overdoses just do not matter as much. As previous speakers indicated, they are called names, even by some in this House. They are derided and dehumanised and their families are accused of...

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: We need a realistic debate. Many people from all sorts of professions, different parts of the country and various age groups are taking drugs, but we treat people from disadvantaged backgrounds differently. If you go into any court in the country, you will find it stuffed full of poor, sick people who do not belong there. Our thesis, which I think is replicated across this House, is that...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (21 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The reason for my absence is that I was contributing to a debate on the citizen's assembly on drugs. As happens in these Houses, we are supposed to be in two places at the one time.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Labour Party acknowledges the work of the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, in bringing forward a memo to Government on the establishment of a citizens' assembly on drugs. Deputies and Senators from different political groups feel strongly about the citizens' assembly being a real force for change. We want the voice of the service user, the drug user, to be central to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 550. To ask the Minister for Health the process in writing by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting during pregnancy can obtain the drug cariban on the drugs payment scheme (details supplied); and if he will provide details of the standard practice in other EU member states. [6510/23]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the number of people within the prison system with mental health difficulties and addiction issues. We have more than 4,000 prisoners while 40 years ago we had about 1,000. The difference is the drugs issue, as the Minister said earlier. I commend the Government, in particular the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, on bringing forward the memo today on the citizens' assembly on drugs....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022: Discussion (24 Jan 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...be a further negative impact on their careers? We are asking them to work later, deeper into night with people who have more alcohol on board. The second issue is public health. Alcohol is a drug and it costs the health services approximately €3 billion every year. Approximately 100 people die of fatal overdoses of alcohol every year. We must put our minds towards those who...

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — during the past 25 years of a law-enforcement approach to drug abuse, drug-related deaths have increased by 225 per cent, compared to a 68 per cent reduction in road deaths in the same period, with the total number of such deaths well exceeding 10,500; — Ireland now has the joint-highest rate of drug-induced deaths among...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Nov 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Next week, the Labour Party will bring forward a Private Members' motion on the issue of drugs and the decriminalisation of the drug user. The Government has promised a citizens' assembly on drugs for early next year. Is the Tánaiste in a position to clarify when the proposed citizens' assembly on drugs will take place? It is needed. In many communities, the drugs crisis is...

Dublin City Safety Initiatives and Other Services: Statements (17 Nov 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...for granted. The Minister talked about policing. We cannot police our way out of this. We have to address, as has been suggested, the underlying issues of housing, poverty, disadvantage and drugs. I see the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, is present. It is a scandal that the injecting centre has not been up and running since it was passed by these Houses in 2017. It is an...