Results 61-72 of 72 for drugs speaker:Martin Kenny

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Mar 2018)

Martin Kenny: As the Tánaiste is aware, the Government has a proposal to deal with orphan drugs, particularly in cases that need to be resolved. Many of these drugs are examined in the same way as mainstream drugs and it does not work. Two girls, who have been here on a number of occasions, little Grace from Leitrim and Cezy from Kilkenny, are waiting for a drug called Vimizim. The Temple Street...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: ...land. Of course, he needed a licence to grow it because of its particular leaf and the problem that one could be growing something else in the middle of it. As everyone knows, there is no drug involved in hemp, but as it has the same leaf, the danger is that people could be producing cannabis in the middle of it. Could there be some alteration - I would not say a genetic modification -...

Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (7 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: Two of the children who use this drug are in the Public Gallery. One of them is from Leitrim and one from Kilkenny. Both of them are very anxious and worried that they have not got any decision. They really depend on getting this drug approved. There are only three children in the country using it. I appeal for something to happen in this regard.

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: There are people in the Gallery today from the Irish MPS Society who suffer from the condition Morquio. They were here some months ago when we raised the issue of a drug called Vimizim with the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health, who unfortunately is in a committee today. Only three children in the country use this drug. The matter was before a special health committee about three weeks...

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Feb 2018)

Martin Kenny: It is the national drugs committee.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (31 Jan 2018)

Martin Kenny: 219. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug Vimizim has being approved by the HSE for those suffering from Morquio syndrome (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4797/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2017)

Martin Kenny: ...we meet people who are special and different. I ask that the Taoiseach listen for five minutes to what these two children have to say. If he does so, I am absolutely confident he will ensure the drug is approved for all children with this illness. It is totally wrong that they have been left in their current situation.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (4 May 2017)

Martin Kenny: 173. To ask the Minister for Health if there are negotiations taking place with the relevant drug company for the supply of a drug (details supplied) which is licensed here but not reimbursed by the HSE and which is the treatment recommended for a person (details supplied); if not, the reason therefor; and if he will consider making the drug available to the person on a trial basis until a...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2016: Motion (14 Dec 2016)

Martin Kenny: ...published a report highlighting serious flaws in the running of the sector. The integrity of the greyhound industry is in tatters, mainly due to the seemingly laissez-faireattitude to the use of performance enhancing drugs. The Greyhound Board of Great Britain warned owners, as late as 2014, of the dangers of buying dogs from Ireland and urged all trainers to exercise caution and due...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Oct 2016)

Martin Kenny: ...change attitudes resulting in the common good for all. I believe changing attitudes towards tobacco smoking will be effected by plain packaging. For far too long, this poisonous carcinogenic drug has been socially acceptable as part of everyday life in such a way as to have become normal. The scenario in which children in their buggies were being pushed into shops in which displays of...

Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters Relative to the Cavan-Monaghan Division of An Garda Síochána) Report: Statements (Resumed) (26 May 2016)

Martin Kenny: It is alleged that senior officers have reprimanded gardaí who have tried to investigate or raise concerns about criminal activity, including drugs offences, breaches of bail conditions and firearms offences. It is also alleged that senior gardaí in Leitrim have been engaged in aggressive and vindictive behaviour towards other members of the Garda and that abuses of positions of...

Crime: Statements (5 May 2016)

Martin Kenny: ...about them. The lesson to come from this is there must be a new emphasis to ensure things happen to protect people in rural communities. I will dwell briefly on an issue in small and regional towns, in which drug abuse is becoming increasingly prevalent. I spoke to people recently in what was a quite rural part of County Leitrim in which a number of young people who had been smoking...