Results 81-100 of 219 for drugs speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...on it but, as we are concluding, it would be helpful to clarify or acknowledge that the job of the HPRA is, as I understand it, to work within certain EU directives and frameworks to approve a drug to be used an dispensed. As I understand it, it is not about deciding the efficacy of a particular product for a particular patient. I think that is an important distinction and perhaps those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Remit: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (11 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...told there is nothing for them and to sleep in the car for the weekend, or they are placed in completely unsuitable environments such as hotels or emergency hostel accommodation with people with drug problems. This week I spoke to a young woman with two young special needs children who was placed in a hotel. After she walked through the door, she was offered heroin by the first person...

Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (2 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...from what they do in order to develop the skills base and knowledge to begin to build up our own indigenous industrial capacity? We self-evidently are not doing so. I will raise the issue of drugs and medicine on the Adjournment later today. We have the capacity now to develop our own industry in the area of medicine and drugs, which could save the State and the health service in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...cannabis use have very little to do with what we are discussing here, which is about medicinal use. Is it not the case, as alluded to by Professor Finn, that we have a whole range of authorised drugs at the moment where the adverse side effects - there is strong evidence of this - are as bad as, or in many cases much worse than, any evidence we have for adverse effects from medicinal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of access programme in other countries but he did not answer my question. What will the Department's access programme do for the unmet need whereby people do not get pain relief from existing drugs? I put it to him that the programme will leave them out in the cold and label them criminals if they attempt to access the product. I asked the witnesses whether they thought it acceptable...

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...not have a roof over their heads, they cannot function properly within society. How can one pursue educational opportunities, access employment, maintain one's mental health or avoid developing drugs or drink problems if one does not have a secure roof over one's head? It is the most basic consideration and if the Government cannot deliver this for its citizens, then it is unworthy of...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...gardaí or others find themselves in difficulty, sometimes in jeopardy or at the wrong end of unjustified abuse, then we need to take that notion seriously. One issue central to that is the question of how we deal with drugs. It seems that the entire strategy that has been pursued for decades has failed abysmally. The Garda, communities and society generally end up picking up the...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...save it, the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael parties have left this country in a political wilderness. However, they are not contemplating how they can save humanity but rather how they can pursue the drug of power and political office, without any concern for the substantial issues that affect ordinary citizens in this country. Most shamefully of all, the background to that political...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...film that dramatises those issues very well. It showed how people were subject to abuse in particular situations. The film was set in the United States and showed how people were force-fed drugs they probably did not need, subjected to forced electrotherapy and so on. It was a shocking dramatisation of the potential for abuse where people are categorised as being mentally or physically...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...problems the fear is he may not take his shots and if he does not do so he could die. He was released and put in emergency housing in Dún Laoghaire that is overwhelmingly populated by people with chronic drug or alcohol problems. When he arrived with his family and saw where he had to stay he was stricken with fear. On seeing his reaction his family worried he might keel over and...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...a child is 13 does not mean he or she can look after himself or herself. Has the Government even considered the social consequences of this? There are huge implications for anti-social behaviour, drug abuse and, ironically, teenage pregnancy. Has the Minister really thought this through? It seems from his comments to date that very little thought has been given to the likely fall-out...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta) 2017: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: First Stage (28 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in Dún Laoghaire. However, she told me this morning it is only until 7 April, when she will be left insecure again. Will she be put into squalid tenement housing, as some people are, or accommodation with chronic damp, full of drug users, as others have been? Alternatively, will the State have a legal obligation to give her a secure roof over her head? What about child welfare?...

Pre-European Council: Statements (2 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...anywhere in the world, including in this country. People, including European leaders, need to get that into their heads. We do not need a repeat of the disgraceful position with retroviral AIDS drugs, when poorer countries were pleading to have access to the technology to produce generic and cheap versions for distribution but big pharmaceutical companies did not want to do it because it...

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in Dublin city. He has a walking frame. He has no rolling bed and cannot leave his belongings in the hostel during the day. He must walk around, on his walking frame, with his belongings every day. Thomas is another pensioner who is sleeping rough in Dún Laoghaire because he will not go into Dublin city and stay in hostels with drugs and drink. He is afraid of the city. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...authorities similar to the one included in Deputy Gino Kenny's proposal and are developing specific expertise. Those regimes make a distinction between cannabis and other pharmaceutical-type drugs. It was a political decision. At the very least, we need to debate which is the better option and hear arguments on both sides instead of just one view. Other countries which are just as...

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...know that front-line services are crumbling? Could he explain how this is logical, justified and fair when everybody knows that what we need are nurses, ambulances, new equipment, primary care centres and drugs that are affordable for people. We need the actual service that keeps people alive and healthy. That is where we need to put the money into but as with Irish Water and waste...

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the other side as a different person and may be in a position to look after his or her children. Perhaps the parent secured a home and his or her mental health improved as a result. A person with drug or other addiction problems who is housed will be in a better position to obtain treatment, achieve rehabilitation and so forth. However, an adoption may already have taken place. In such...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and in particular to review the way a lack of resources for alternative approaches is driving the overuse of medication given the concern in relation to the rapid rise in the use of psychiatric drugs in children". I asked that question in April 2021. The Minister did not answer the question but bounced it. He said that it was essentially not for him to answer. When I asked him to...

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...those basic needs were satisfied and, in so far as people had mental health issues, he was the first to understand the talking cure. That is basic interaction between human beings, not pills or drugs - I am not saying they do not have some role - not nails in the head, not incarceration but to talk, one human being to another or a few human beings together, in order that there is real...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...as we speak. She has been told there are no hotels available and there are no hubs. If there is a place for everybody, please offer her a place and please do not offer her a place infested with drug users and people with alcohol or other problems. I ask the Minister about another family I am dealing with who have six children. To give the background, they have been on the housing...