Results 161-180 of 524 for drugs speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (7 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...list would be entitled to avail of this centre, meaning they would share an open door with St. Catherine’s Community Centre in which there are young people. One could have sex offenders, chaotic drug users and alcoholics going to the complex which was prevented in the past. The young people in this centre are at risk and not on the transitional housing list but are given two...

Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Persons Supports (7 May 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...community was told that unless it allowed the foyer to be built it would get nothing. Thanks to the combination of the St. Catherine's residents' association, the Coalition of Communities against Drugs and Dublin City Council, two fine facilities were built in this severely disadvantaged area of the south inner city. Hundreds of young people and many adults use the sports complex, which...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (23 Apr 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...Government, but in this area it has missed deadlines and broken promises. All we have seen is the primary care debacle. The Government has also failed to live up to its commitment to provide for free drugs under the long-term illness scheme and the high-tech drugs scheme. The Government said it would publish a White Paper on universal health insurance. When is that coming? Is it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (27 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Since this committee is not an expert committee, I suggest that we write to the Irish Medicines Board specifically to find out its procedures in authorising new drugs coming onto the market and to establish the steps it takes to monitor continually the adverse effects of drugs that are on sale. When it is established that there are serious adverse effects, how is a drug withdrawn from the...

Topical Issue Debate: Thalidomide Victim Compensation (20 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...since this Government took office two years ago for address of this issue, many others have been waiting the more than 50 years, since they were first affected, for it to be addressed. The drug, introduced in 1959, was supposedly safe, non-toxic, had no side affects and was an effective treatment of morning sickness, nausea and sleeplessness. Later that year, questions around how unsafe...

Topical Issues: Youth Services (5 Mar 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...that I know best. These projects in the main are in working class or disadvantaged areas, whichever title the Minister wants to use, but they tick all the boxes that always define areas of major need, where the drug problem has been at its height. In the past there was low educational attainment in these areas. Much has been done about that in recent years and the cycle has been broken...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (31 Jan 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the recent breakthrough drug available in Britain to cystic fibrosis sufferers is not being made available here; and his views on the Health Service Executives approach to addressing the shortfall in services and facilities to help cystic fibrosis sufferers here [4899/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Places (29 Jan 2013)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...the Minister for Social Protection of the 2000 new community employment places announced on 19 January 2013, the number that will be ring fenced for those in receipt of disability allowance or for drugs projects or childcare places. [4059/13]

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...gone. Some towns have a 25% unemployment rate. Many people in those communities are pensioners who also depend on social welfare. The sleveen little cuts that are being made here, there and everywhere will affect their lives. The increase in the prescription charge, for example, will take money from the pockets of pensioners and medical card holders. Those who used to benefit from the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (13 Nov 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that for every €1 spent on drug rehabilitation programmes, €3 is saved from the prison budget; his views on the collaboration programmes and shared budget streams between his Department and the Department of Justice. [49462/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug Seizures (25 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of seizures of the illegal drug pseudoephedrine in each of the past 10 years and the seizure's location, value and size. [46920/12]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (25 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Defence the persons within the army that were prescribed the 27,392 Doxycycline anti-malaria tablets issued between 2006 and 2012 and not another anti-malaria drug; if rank, unit, health status, duties, age, marital status, and length of time served or prescribing MO determine which anti-malaria tablets were prescribed to whom. [47115/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (25 Oct 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Health the plans, if any, he has of rolling out a drug awareness programme aimed at pharmacists in particular to increase vigilance about pseudo ephedrine and the production of methamphetamine crystal meth [46924/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug Seizures (19 Sep 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of the number of drug seizures in each county for each of the years 2009, 2010, 2011 and to date in 2012; and the quantity, type and value of drug seizures involved. [39334/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Employment Drug Rehabilitation Projects (18 Sep 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: To ask the Minister for Health if there is a scheme available to compensate community reps for attending drugs task force meetings which are often held during working hours and that many community representatives have to take time off work to attend; and if so which drugs task forces operate it and the fee payable to those attending meetings on behalf of their community. [38195/12]

Public Order Offences (11 Jul 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...to walk the streets heading to the concert. How many of them were turned away? Was there a drink tank where people could have recovered instead of going to the concert to have more drink and drugs? Despite some searches by stewards, drink was brought into the concert, and this was consumed on top of the drinks sold at the concert. There was an inadequate Garda presence and inadequate...

Medicinal Products (21 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...in regard to this medicine, those data should be compiled without delay. Will the Minister give a commitment, in advance of any future deployment in sub-Saharan Africa, that a review of the drug and its administration in the Defence Forces will be undertaken? Its use as an anti-malaria drug has been discontinued in the armed forces of many countries on the basis of its severe side...

Local Government (Household Charge) (Repeal) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Deputy should stop taking those drugs. They are not doing him any good.

Written Answers — Drugs in Prisons: Drugs in Prisons (8 May 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 123: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans for construction of a custodial drug treatment centre. [22670/12]

Community Employment Schemes (1 Mar 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That response deals with the drugs places but there are others related to child care, disability places and a whole range that has built up over the years. If these are deducted from the 22,000, how many of the CE places are realigned to the new one-year figure?