* To ask the Minister for Health his views that the work of the Health Service Executive and non-governmental organisations would be strengthened in the area of tackling and preventing elder abuse if legislation was introduced to provide a statutory footing, thereby protecting against abuse at every life stage. Reply: As the Deputy may… Continue Reading
Topical Issue debate: Services for young adults with a disability Deputy Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister of State and I concur with what has been said by my colleagues. When we met with the representatives of the Brothers of Charity services in Galway last Friday they went through the figures and the cuts they have… Continue Reading
* To ask the Minister for Health further to parliamentary Question No. 514 of 20 September 2011, if he will report on the progress to licence the cannabis derived medication, Sativex, which has been proven to alleviate the symptoms arising from multiple sclerosis in other States including that of the UK; and if he will… Continue Reading
* To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 531 of 25 October 2011, if he will outline if he favours the introduction of generic packaging for cigarettes similar to that being proposed in Australia and the United Kingdom; when he expects the findings of the Tobacco Policy Review Group to be… Continue Reading
* To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the differences which exist across the regions in the administration of the BCG vaccine, with children in the West, in particular , not receiving the vaccine until a considerable number of years after birth; and if the issue is one of… Continue Reading