Results 121-140 of 213 for drugs speaker:Seán Crowe

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (25 Jun 2014)

Seán Crowe: ...Government is failing to tackle seriously. While I am critical of the overall tone of the recommendations, I do not have a problem with some of them, including the need for progress on reducing legal services and drugs costs and so on. I recently raised this issue with the Minister of State, Deputy Donohoe, at a meeting of the Joint Committee on European Affairs. It is often stated that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Commission Country Specific Recommendations for Ireland: Minister of State at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (12 Jun 2014)

Seán Crowe: ...creating more unemployment. While I am critical of the overall tone of the recommendations, I do not have a problem with some of them, including the need for progress on reducing legal services and drugs costs and so on. It is often stated that Ireland has a small population and should work out its own drugs bill. Is there a need for a European-wide review of the cost of drugs? Many...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 May 2014)

Seán Crowe: ...clothes are limited and there are added costs. This is an increasing problem across Dublin city. Some hostels are better than others. I have spoken to homeless people with addiction problems who were off drugs and alcohol but had no alternative other than to use what are known as wet hostels. This creates difficulties for them as they come under pressure. I spoke to one pensioner, a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Rehabilitation Clinics (25 Mar 2014)

Seán Crowe: 1098. To ask the Minister for Health the timescale for the roll out of the ENDRIC-ECASS system in task force and community based drug rehabilitation projects. [13563/14]

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Seán Crowe: ...are trying to pay people's wages at the proper rate and work to union agreements. There is a difficulty there. Even the small stimulus package put forward by the Government is causing problems. Drug dealing is increasing in towns and cities across Ireland. We have seen the Garda response and there have been huge successes in my constituency. However, drugs of all types are being...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Drugs Smuggling (19 Feb 2014)

Seán Crowe: We all oppose the death penalty for those involved in drug trafficking. However, I imagine it might be popular not only in this city but parts of the State. The Minister referred to the alternative crops strategy. Will we examine this problem with a new sense of urgency? As he stated, 75% of the world supply of heroin comes from the region in question. Will there be a strong voice from...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Drugs Smuggling (19 Feb 2014)

Seán Crowe: As the Tánaiste may be aware, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has reported that the level of poppy cultivation in Afghanistan rose to a new high of more than 200,000 ha in 2013, a 36% increase on the figure for last year. This is an area approximately 283 times the size of Phoenix Park. If I was to stand in the middle of a field, it would be as far as the eye could see and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Drugs Smuggling (19 Feb 2014)

Seán Crowe: ...'s heroin comes from Afghanistan. Many Members are familiar with the effects of heroin and we have all stood at too many graves and attended too many funerals as a result of the effects of the drug. I am old enough to remember the cheap heroin on the streets of Dublin and concerned that this will happen again. The Minister of State has referred to ongoing discussions and said we are...

European Council: Statements (21 Jan 2014)

Seán Crowe: ...? I mentioned the interim agreement on nuclear energy involving a reduction in sanctions on Iran. One of the issues that came up with the Iranians was that in the past three years the amount of drugs coming through Afghanistan had quadrupled. Did any discussion take place on the matter? The Iranians are interested in co-operating with other countries on it, as Iran is hugely affected...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Treatment Programmes Availability (26 Nov 2013)

Seán Crowe: 577. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the major epidemic of opiate drugs being taken in midland towns, namely Athy, County Kildare; and his plans to open a new drug treatment clinic, including methadone treatment, in County Kildare. [50586/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Challenges in Urban Belfast: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

Seán Crowe: ...to disadvantage and the traditional industries and so on. I could bring the witnesses around areas of this city where things are a good deal worse than Belfast in terms of disadvantage, poverty, drugs, crime and inequality. These are problems throughout the island, not only in the North. The sectarian nature of the state needs to be tackled by all of us. Collectively, we need to come...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Nov 2013)

Seán Crowe: ...to where all these talked about jobs are being created. It is not happening in many areas. The big growth area that people talk about in my constituency relates to the number of people involved in illegal drugs. Parts of my constituency are a bit like “The Wire” as are probably parts of the Minister’s. It has been noted there are more people with expensive...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Drug Response Project (22 Oct 2013)

Seán Crowe: 589. To ask the Minister for Health the funding arrangements and amounts per community drug response project in the Tallaght area, Dublin, per year, over the past five years; and the cuts that have been imposed each year on each project. [44755/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (28 May 2013)

Seán Crowe: 611. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to any increase in patients presenting to the accident and emergency at Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, in relation to drug linked assaults. [25338/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Domestic Violence: Discussion (16 May 2013)

Seán Crowe: ...perhaps being more common in urban areas but I do not know if that is the case, although I am certainly aware of it. I recently dealt with a family where the partner had a serious crack cocaine drug problem. The house was being turned into a crack house, there were children there, domestic violence, and people were coming in to intimidate others and to look for money for drugs, and guns...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (20 Mar 2013)

Seán Crowe: To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to reduce the cost of generic drugs in view of reports that the Health Service Executive pays up to 24 times more than the National Health Service for some generic drugs; if he will outline a timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13770/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Prisoners' Rights: Discussion with Northern Ireland Prisoner Ombudsman (31 Jan 2013)

Seán Crowe: Is Ms McCabe saying that the reason republican prisoners are being searched is to find drugs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Prisoners' Rights: Discussion with Northern Ireland Prisoner Ombudsman (31 Jan 2013)

Seán Crowe: .... I cannot understood why strip searching is being used in the prisons and it is not only in the North that it is being used. Ms McCabe mentioned that this is related to there being a big drug problem but historically there would not have been a huge drug problem on republican wings, of which I was ever aware, yet strip searches are being carried out on those prison wings. Does Ms...

Topical Issue Debate: Northern Ireland Issues (16 Jan 2013)

Seán Crowe: ...about. In the Tánaiste's view, is this about criminality? Is it about court cases coming down the line - supergrass court cases? Is it about the number two in the UVF in east Belfast facing drug charges at the moment?

Topical Issue Debate: Northern Ireland Issues (16 Jan 2013)

Seán Crowe: What about the other night and £100,000 worth of drugs being found in the area? Are there underlying factors in regard to what is happening?