Results 61-80 of 142 for drugs speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (29 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 258. To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies born suffering from addiction to drugs or alcohol in the State in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47791/22]

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...if you were a victim of sexual abuse, in many cases, you were placed in an institution. The review notes that Karen ran away from the institution and slept rough in Dublin, where she was exposed to prostitution and heavy drug use, although she did not partake in either. This is the way children were treated in the past in this country. Every time we raise these questions, we are assured...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (31 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if she plans to include drugs found in the car of a driver as a reason to impose a driving ban on a driver. [27585/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Drug Dealing (31 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...passports to members of an organisation (details supplied) who are banned from entering the United States of America; and if he plans to withhold passports from citizens convicted of international drug dealing and serial criminality. [27589/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (31 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 583. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of roadside drug tests that were carried out by An Garda Síochána in each of the past five years; the number of these tests that were positive in that period; the number of drivers who received a driving ban as a result of these tests; the number of driver drug tests that were carried out in total for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (31 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 596. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drug finds in each prison for each of the past ten years; the estimated value of these drugs finds in each prison for each of the past ten years; the number of persons who have been convicted for these drugs finds in each prison for each of the past ten years; and the number of Irish Prison Service staff who...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (31 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...for Justice and Equality the number of phones and illegal contraband which have been found in each prison for each of the past five years; the number of persons who have been convicted for these drugs finds in each prison for each of the past ten years; and the number of Irish Prison Service staff who have been convicted for these finds in each prison for each of the past ten years. [27876/22]

Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...this year and the national maternity strategy mention increasing support for pregnant women who are suffering from addiction. Figures released to us show that the number of children addicted to drugs or alcohol has increased in recent years and particularly during the Covid crisis. The image of a midwife weaning a newborn baby off illegal drugs is shocking and distressing. People...

Cancer Care: Motion [Private Members] (2 Feb 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...and treatment that is received by both patients. It is just that one is prioritised and the other is deprioritised. A scandal emerged in 2019 when the VHI stated that it would be offering new drugs to its members for the treatment of advanced melanoma, breast cancer and lung cancer. Professor John Crown kicked up a serious fuss at the time. This was the first time the State was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...will accompany the strategy? It is not just domestic violence that has received a spike. Yesterday, I received information that there was an increase in the number of babies born with alcohol and drug addiction in the State. Just before Christmas, I received information that 70,000 children were referred to Tusla last year. This is more children than do the leaving certificate in a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Jan 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 1769. To ask the Minister for Health the number of phone calls received by the HSE drug and alcohol helpline in each of the past ten years in tabular form. [1756/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (7 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 549. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children born either addicted to or severely affected by alcohol or drugs in each of the past ten years and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60083/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...ten years. Some 42 children died while in State care and 164 children who were known to child protection services died. Half of the children who died while in State care died either by suicide or by drug overdose. Twelve children were murdered while known to child protection services over the past decade. During the same period, 62 children who were known to child protection services...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Substance Misuse (16 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 417. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to an increase in illegal drug use over the past ten years; if his Department compiles any statistics on drug use nationally; if so, if he will furnish this Deputy with such statistics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56003/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Substance Misuse (16 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 420. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of babies born either addicted to or effected by drugs or alcohol in each of the past ten years and to date in 2021. [56006/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Nov 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 623. To ask the Minister for Health the number of phone calls received by the HSE drug and alcohol helpline in each of the past ten years and to date in 2021. [55998/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (5 Oct 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if former prisoners (details supplied) had been given extra money by the prison to help them re-enter society; if this extra money was used to buy drugs; and the steps taken to ensure that such funds do not get spent on drugs. [47591/21]

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...while she was asleep over the course of 12 months. When the judge was handing down the sentence, he credited that perpetrator for confessing and allowing the case to be brought forward. In February, a former drug dealer was given a fully suspended sentence despite sexually assaulting a woman. In another case, a man was given the opportunity to be spared a criminal conviction for the...

Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Apr 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...of Europe. What is Moore Street now? It is an outdoor toilet. It gives me no pleasure to say that. If one speaks to many of the people who work on Moore Street, they will say that there is violence, drug use and people defecating in that street. Moore Street has been allowed to fall into that level of dereliction by at least two Governments in the last while. It is an incredible...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drugs in Prisons (24 Mar 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 1266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the volume of drugs taken in the Irish Prison Service each year for the past ten years; the volume of drugs that were confiscated or seized in the Irish Prison Service in each of the past ten years; the number of prisoners that are classified as drug addicts; and the number of prisoners receiving treatment for drug...