Results 21-40 of 41 for drugs speaker:Victor Boyhan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Feb 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...relationships from early on, invariably, that young person has left his or her place of care or, in some cases, detention. How do you keep that relationship going? Then you mix that in with drug addiction. Addiction is a big issue here. We need to be careful. I am very concerned by the stories I am hearing in relation to addiction, which, let us be honest, is a mental health issue...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2022)

Victor Boyhan: ...and highlight the plight of these people. It is nearly 60 years ago. Ireland is one of the last jurisdictions in the world where litigation around the damage done by the morning sickness drug is still ongoing against Grünenthal. It is very sad. I spoke with a woman recently who said that all her life she wanted the wrong that had happened to her to be recognised. She did not...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...racing industry. It is an extraordinarily interesting report and I am one of a number of members on the joint Oireachtas committee. The report has 11 strong recommendations dealing with doping, drug tracing in horses, corporate governance issues and also the composition of a board. Given the very significant amount of public funds that go into this body, it is critically important. It...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Homeless Persons Supports (4 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...rather than a functional family situation. We know the huge issues facing homeless people. Their needs relate to issues ranging from childhood experiences to poor mental health and problems with drugs or alcohol, and in many cases a combination of all those issues. These are therefore vulnerable people. As I said, many of them are leaving State care, detention or direct provision and...

Seanad: Public Transport: Motion (3 Nov 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...who are being exposed to threats of sexual assault and aggression on buses and trains, including the DART and Luas. The problem is occurring in both urban and rural areas all around the country. We now know that drugs are being taken openly. Dealing and fighting should not have to be encountered by any member of the public travelling on the national transport corridors, wherever they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Independent Mink Farms: Discussion (15 Jul 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...The suggested recommendations from this European paper which I received yesterday state permitted methods consist of the use of mechanical instruments which would penetrate the brain, an overdose of a drug of anaesthetic properties, electrocution by cardiac arrest, exposure to carbon monoxide, exposure to chloroform and exposure to carbon dioxide. That is dramatic and headlining stuff....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Animal Health and Welfare (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (15 Jul 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...animals. Welfare is another aspect about which I have had more calls and emails than about any other matter. I spoke today about mechanical operations, instruments that penetrate the brain, overdose of drugs by anaesthetics, electrocution by cardiac arrest and exposure to carbon monoxide, chloroform and carbon dioxide. They are options I do not necessarily support but they are set out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Veterinary Medicines: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...is applicable to responsible persons, RPs.? I think it is at a very high level and of a very high standard. I know people who have done this training and who can administer these antiparasitic drugs, and so on. That is the issue. I am conscious that we cannot be seen to be held up in terms of vested interests, be they veterinarians, distributors or otherwise. It is important we give a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...from detention in the prison system or institutional care is exceptionally vulnerable in a range of ways. When someone is homeless, he or she is vulnerable to exploitation, prostitution, alcohol, drugs, crime and other travesties that damage people's lives. There are significant challenges with integrating, mixing and socialising the same cohort of people. We have to do something about...

Seanad: Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Statements (19 Jan 2021)

Victor Boyhan: ...broken and she could not shed any more tears. There were no more tears to give. It is important that we move on and that we have restitution and deal with that. The Wellcome Foundation carried out drug trials, which I lived through and was subject to in the institution I was in. The Taoiseach will be fully aware of this matter because we engaged on it 20 years ago. I told this House...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Veterinary Medicines (24 Nov 2020)

Victor Boyhan: ...did not manage to complete. This is an ongoing issue, which I am sure has exercised the Minister's officials, who were at that meeting. This EU regulation will restrict the sale of antiparasitic drugs for livestock to farmers by making it illegal for anyone other than a vet to prescribe to them. These drugs are routine medicines given to animals to kill parasites such as gut worm, liver...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2020)

Victor Boyhan: ...anyone. However, I know people who have appeared before this panel and I recognise that they have brought highly sensitive information to it. I will not speculate on the type of information they brought. I touched on the drug issue. It is here in the transcript and the Minister will recall that. We will have an opportunity in a month or two to have the report and I look forward to...

Seanad: Illegal Drugs: Motion (13 Nov 2019)

Victor Boyhan: ...of State. I have always found her to be a decent person who is empathetic and supportive on this issue. She has always taken a responsible lead against sometimes stiff opposition. Not all drug users are addicts. We need to keep remembering that. In every walk of life, there is misuse of drugs and of drink. Alcohol is a terrible drug and a scourge on our society, as are drugs, and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: VAT Exemptions (30 Jan 2019)

Victor Boyhan: ...for the benefit of those who are popping vitamins every day of the week. That is not right. However, GPs tell me they are prescribing these vitamins and mineral supplements - let us not call them drugs - on which Revenue will charge VAT. One must ask what the Government can do about it. I presume there it may be possible to address the matter in a finance Bill or other legislation....

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2018)

Victor Boyhan: ...way, 40 or 50 years later, I can now look back on that. However, I grew up from day one in what was described as a clearing house for adoptions. I grew up in the very building where the Wellcome drug trials took place. I was one of those subjected to them. I lived there. I want to draw the attention of Senators to one thing: Deputy Micheál Martin was Minister for Health when that...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)

Victor Boyhan: ...day at the age of 57 years. I will explain how I came in contact with him first. He was a brave young journalist who, 25 years ago, first broke the story in the Sunday Tribunerelating to the drug trials on children in State institutions when no other newspaper would touch the article and no national broadcaster would touch the issue. At that stage, it was denounced and people thought it...

Seanad: Controlled Drugs and Harm Reduction Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Victor Boyhan: ...xd3; Domhnaill, Bacik, Nash and Humphreys. They are the people who considered this to be good legislation. They gave it thought and signed it. I would not have signed if I believed that it would be a charter for drug pushers. That is not what it is about. Drug dealers need to be taken on because they are criminals who are destroying people's lives, communities and families. Let us...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Nov 2016)

Victor Boyhan: ...the participation of all parties and Senators. A story appeared in a number of national newspapers yesterday and has been echoed in the media today. I refer to the scandal of the historical drug trials that took place on children in State care in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The former Ministers Ms Mary Harney and Deputy Micheál Martin initiated a number of statutory...

Seanad: Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2016)

Victor Boyhan: .... It is not just a catch-all situation because people have recourse to the law. Communities across this city, county and country are ravaged by crime and criminal activity, be it with regard to drugs, smuggling, prostitution or a whole range of crimes. Many people are hooked into crime who do not give their full consent or who are not even fully aware how they are hooked into criminal...

Seanad: Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2016)

Victor Boyhan: ...amendments. I referred yesterday to the four detox beds in Dublin. I replayed what she said, which was to the effect that she could not guarantee anything. That is not good enough. The scourge of drugs has bedevilled and ripped out the heart of every community in this country. It knows no bounds. It has touched every family. The Minister of State knows that and I know it. Brothers...