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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: How much of a factor is social class in oral health? There are, obviously, flaws in the medical card scheme. If access to dental healthcare is to be largely on a private basis, people in particular social class groupings are at a disadvantage in accessing that care.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: Is that rare?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: Is that normal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: Is it fair to say that children will probably only get one screening over the lifetime of their primary education?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: I was in school in the 1980s and I remember the dentist visited every year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: So none.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: That is bad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: My final question relates to the proliferation of dental treatment abroad. Obviously it is a very popular phenomenon, whether it is for cosmetic or other dental care. The big driver of that is the cost abroad, which is a fraction of the cost in Ireland. Are our guests worried about the proliferation of this new phenomenon of dental healthcare abroad?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: What can dentists do when somebody presents for treatment while suffering serious difficulties following dental treatment abroad?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: I concur with Deputy McNamara on having a debate, particularly around the inquest into Aoife Johnston's death. It would be in the interest of not only Aoife's family but in the public interest as a whole that we have a debate in the coming days or weeks on what happened in Limerick University Hospital and on emergency departments, ED, across the State.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: I know the Minister commented earlier on the Irish Dental Association, which has painted a stark picture of children's oral healthcare. It was before the Joint Committee on Health last year and will be again next week to address screening. More than 100,000 children did not get the basic screening in primary school. I remember, when I was growing up, a dentist coming three or four times...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (25 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: 29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that one in five (19.7%) people unable to work due to disability live in consistent poverty, that this is almost four times higher than the national average (5.3%); what measures will she take to lift people with disabilities out of poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9513/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Work Supports (25 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: 353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the Youthreach programme functions above the 166 days for students, given the reduction in staff who are employed as pro-rata teachers/resource persons; the percentage breakdown, by centre to indicate the way staffing levels change during this time (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18532/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Work Supports (25 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: 354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if principal officers and deputy principal officers who work within the Youthreach education service read the Youthreach Employee Wellbeing Report 2022: A review of employees’ experience of working in the Youthreach Sector, published in January 2023; if he has concerns which may have been raised by the Youthreach Employee Wellbeing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: My first question is one I have been trying to ask, and this is probably a good place to ask it. How much of an effect does people looking at screens have on eyesight? We are on our phones, computers and so forth for a good part of the day. Is it affecting people’s eyesight, particularly children’s?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: Is there any way of mitigating us constantly looking at screens? We all have to look at screens because of our jobs and so forth.