Results 81-100 of 213 for drugs speaker:Seán Crowe

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (24 Sep 2019)

Seán Crowe: The Minister of State has explained the increase in cost. I am concerned, however, that the Defence Forces still use Lariam. That is what baffles me. Other countries have stopped prescribing this drug and have apologised to the members of their respective defence forces for prescribing it to them in the first place. Why is Ireland not following suit? There are concerns regarding Lariam....

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Seán Crowe: ...to many a post office in my constituency, and he would probably find them in his own area, where moneylenders operate. They are not outside the post office but have their agents outside them. Some of them are also drug dealers and they collect money. They hand out cards and books to people on their way into the post office to collect their welfare payments and collect money from them on...

Road Traffic (Quads and Scramblers) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Oct 2018)

Seán Crowe: ...all typical working-class areas. This is a problem in estates right across my constituency. In one area there are about eight quads and scrambler bikes. The majority of the people who use them are involved in drug dealing, so even if the bike is taken from them, they can replace it the following year if they are involved in that. I have seen photographs taken with a camera in people's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Impact of Brexit on the Good Friday Agreement: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Seán Crowe: ...support for the PSNI either. I refer not only to loyalists but people living in loyalist communities. The reason for the lack of support is a lack of delivery, particularly around criminality and drugs. That seems to be the message coming across not only from nationalists, but also from unionist areas. That is where the PSNI needs to step up. It will argue it does not have sufficient...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services in Prisons and Detention Centres: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Seán Crowe: ...in the system? We know the prison population reflects what is happening in society. There is a crisis in homelessness. Increasingly, we see that the young people involved in selling and taking drugs are getting younger and younger. I know of children as young as seven years of age acting as runners for drug dealers. That is possibly the profile of young children coming into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Seán Crowe: ...that stigma is still there and it is uncomfortable for people to come out and talk about whatever difficulty they have had in their life. Whether it is a health issue or a difficulty with alcohol or drugs or otherwise, it is unusual for someone to come out and say it. It is a question of how we structure our response and this goes back to the issue of the services themselves. We have...

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Seán Crowe: ...hÉireann. The Government must give the people their democratic say on neutrality once and for all. This debate reminds me of the Government's attitude to the use of Lariam. It states there is no problem with the drug, despite clear evidence to the contrary. One only needs to speak to one of the soldiers who have taken Lariam and whose lives have been destroyed by it. The...

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Dec 2017)

Seán Crowe: The drug and alcohol strategy is operating against the background of drug feuds and murders, open drug dealing in many areas, intimidation, increasing drug-related deaths, children being used as runners and increasing numbers of suicides and there is significant pressure on the health and mental health services. Drugs task forces are on the front line co-ordinating a response to this growing...

Topical Issue Debate: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (5 Dec 2017)

Seán Crowe: I do not know if the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, is embarrassed reading such a reply. For example, he stated "every effort has been made to protect the budgets of drug and alcohol task forces in recent years." We know for a fact that they have been gutted, in some cases by 20% or 30%. There is talk of reinstating the funding for drug task forces but what is needed is an...

Topical Issue Debate: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (5 Dec 2017)

Seán Crowe: We want to talk about the task force. It might surprise some of the Minister of State's Cabinet colleagues but it should not surprise him that, in parts of my constituency, there is open drug dealing. There is an increase in the number of drug deaths and the rate of intimidation. Families are being intimidated in the area. There are children acting as drug runners and they are destroying...

Private Rental Sector Standards: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2017)

Seán Crowe: ...is water running down the walls. The electricity works sporadically, and sometimes sparks. There is mould in the room. There is a shed and garden at the back of the accommodation that is covered in drug paraphernalia. She asked me what to do. I can report this to the local authority, but the sad reality is that I do not have alternative accommodation for that young woman. That is the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes (11 Sep 2017)

Seán Crowe: 945. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the Health Service Executive has plans to establish a drug addiction clinic and treatment centre on a site (details supplied). [37389/17]

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Jul 2017)

Seán Crowe: ...to have been abandoned. This issue arises quite frequently in the Dublin area, with which I am most familiar. It probably arises in other areas as well. If one of the parents of someone who is on drugs is dead and the other parent is living a chaotic life, that person's child might be taken in by his or her grandparents. I think it is unfair for the abandonment stipulation to apply in...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Framework Agreement between European Union and Republic of the Philippines: Motion (13 Jul 2017)

Seán Crowe: ...the agreement went through the European Parliament, President Duterte had only taken up office, but since then a campaign of extrajudicial killings by the police of people they accuse of selling drugs, including addicts, has unfolded and the death penalty has been introduced. It is reported that up to 7,000 people have been killed as part of the campaign. Collectively, we have concerns...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Framework Agreement between European Union and Republic of the Philippines: Motion (13 Jul 2017)

Seán Crowe: ...not saying it should be used to send a signal but it does send a signal that we are concerned about what is happening in that country. The agreement is also about sharing information on crime and drugs. There was such an agreement between the EU and Iran on the pipeline for heroin that comes through Afghanistan to Europe. We cut off that co-operation because Iran has the death penalty....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU Presidency: Engagement with Estonian Ambassador (5 Jul 2017)

Seán Crowe: ...yet retain the ability to use the same data provider. Let me outline one of the negatives of being a small country like Ireland. This morning I heard a radio clip about the availability of cancer drugs. Small countries like Ireland are squeezed out of the market when it comes to any type of medicinal drugs. Does the ambassador believe Europe should work together to get a better package...

Topical Issue Debate: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: ...is positive work happening in communities, but I detect that people are tired and exhausted from the challenges they face. One of the new challenges that has emerged in recent years is that of drug intimidation, which is widespread. Children, adults and grandparents experience it. This needs to be addressed and supports need to be given to communities that find themselves in that...

Topical Issue Debate: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (10 Nov 2016)

Seán Crowe: I have tabled this Topical Issue matter because I want to discuss with the Minister of State the challenges faced by drugs task forces across the State as they prepare their multiannual strategic action plans. The official model we are using is outdated. It is based on a an opiate and heroin addiction policies and procedures model of 20 years ago and does not take into account or have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Licensing (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: 381. To ask the Minister for Health the licensed importers here for the anti-malarial drug mefloquine; and the licensed distributors here for mefloquine. [30387/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (2 Jun 2016)

Seán Crowe: 121. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the number of members of An Garda Síochána assigned to and active in the Tallaght drugs unit in each of the years 2010 to 2015. [14045/16]