Results 41-60 of 91 for drugs speaker:Dara Calleary

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2013 and Microenterprise Policy: Enterprise Ireland (15 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: ...role of LEOs. Our concern, which remains light, is that the fantastic work being done by Enterprise Ireland is far removed from the CEBs. A client going to a CEB would have thought a HPSU was a drug. Clients want to expand their businesses and provide services in their communities without exporting. Will Ms Sinnamon assure the committee that she is aware of this difference? I pay...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (2 Jul 2014)

Dara Calleary: ...to receive long term psychiatric care outside of the State; if he will provide a breakdown of the cost involved for the past three years; the nature of the specialist treatment abroad and if it is drug lead; if these centres have been inspected by the HSE prior to sending patients there; and if they are being monitored while there. [28622/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (10 Jun 2014)

Dara Calleary: 572. To ask the Minister for Health if a drug (details supplied) can be re-registered on the long-term illness scheme. [24796/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs (8 Apr 2014)

Dara Calleary: 559. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug Pradaxa is covered under the GMS scheme; if not, the options available to patients who use this drug to alleviate the financial costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15974/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Staff (19 Feb 2014)

Dara Calleary: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of customs officials assigned to the illegal drug section in counties Mayo and Sligo; the measures taken for the protection of the western seaboard from illegal drug smuggling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8560/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (27 Nov 2013)

Dara Calleary: ...Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way Irish pharmaceutical companies will be supported to avail of the opportunities for increased production and employment following the recent increase in new drug approvals by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50550/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (5 Nov 2013)

Dara Calleary: 791. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the rationale behind the amalgamation of the two Garda drug units in County Donegal; the moneys allocated to drug units in the county; the number of search warrants per year issued by the drug units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46461/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Misuse of Drugs (5 Nov 2013)

Dara Calleary: 792. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deaths including road traffic deaths in County Donegal from illegal drug use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46462/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drugs Crime (5 Nov 2013)

Dara Calleary: 793. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of search warrants per year issued to the drug units in County Donegal since the year 2000. [46463/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Quality Issues (24 Oct 2013)

Dara Calleary: ...for Health the reason unlicensed industrial grade products like (H2SiF6) hydrofluorosilicic acid is added to the public drinking water supply, when such a product would not be sanctioned in drug form on the Irish Market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45421/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Closures and Job Losses: Discussion with National Off-Licence Association (22 Oct 2013)

Dara Calleary: I always bow to the Senator's far superior knowledge, but in this case surely the consumer is worse off, given that 544 outlets have closed in two years. It is bread or milk, but alcohol is the drug.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business Closures and Job Losses: Discussion with National Off-Licence Association (22 Oct 2013)

Dara Calleary: .... I have long believed there is an imbalance between independent retailers and large multiples, and this information further proves this. The difference in this case is that we are dealing with a drug. The call made by Ms Jones at the end for more cohesion and co-ordination in policy responses is well put. If any other agency or group had had 544 closures in three years that would have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (19 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: 221. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the decision not to allow patients with Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis access to the drug pirfenidone; his views on whether it is unfair to disallow access to the drug on a purely economic basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29590/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (18 Jun 2013)

Dara Calleary: 528. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to have the drug pirfenidone made available for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis based on economic grounds. [28923/13]

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (28 Feb 2013)

Dara Calleary: ...are dealing with addiction. In the Minister's next focus on this issue, we need to focus in on areas that assist people in tackling that addiction, in the same way we do this with regard to other drugs. Tobacco is a drug that is killing people. I commend the legislation. There is still a lot of work to be done this area. It cannot just be done by the Legislature, however. It has to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (6 Nov 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health the name of each drug and product which has been withdrawn from the medical card scheme in 2012 and the basis for the withdrawal of each item [47815/12]

Assaults on Emergency Workers Bill 2012: Second Stage (5 Oct 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...to introduce a specific prohibitive punishment against those individuals who assault emergency workers in the course of their duties. We are all very familiar with the very sad scenes of drink and drug-fuelled violence in towns, cities and localities across the country which emergency workers have to confront every day and night. Yesterday's newspapers carried reports of some of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (27 Sep 2012)

Dara Calleary: To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to tackle the problem of the illegal sale of prescription drugs across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29729/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Irish Exports: Discussion with Irish Exporters Association (25 Sep 2012)

Dara Calleary: ...the party political system - there appears to be a complacency about export markets. There appears to be an attitude that it is all doing really well, exports are flying and large quantities of drugs are being exported from the country. In short, one gets the story that exports are doing well. However, I detect an overall sense from the witnesses that there is complacency within the...

Medicinal Products (19 Jun 2012)

Dara Calleary: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the delay in the provision of the drug Gilenya to patients with multiple sclerosis; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the drug has the potential to transform the lives of many who suffer from MS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29440/12]