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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: What are Dr. Bannan's views on low dose Naltrexone for treatment of long Covid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: Are some medical practitioners using that drug to treat patients with long Covid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: With respect to comparable conditions, we are trying to understand as best we can what long Covid is and it is obviously multifaceted. Is there anything comparable in the witnesses' medical, professional experience of what long Covid is, what it does to the human body and the longevity of that in terms of people's physical condition and mental capacity as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: Are there people who, having been diagnosed with long Covid, have not got over it and have just gone on gradually with it getting more progressive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: This is being used in certain circumstances in relation to people with long Covid.

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: I commend Sinn Féin on this very important motion. I attended the Joint Committee on Health last week where the issue concerning the situation with cancer services was discussed. Representatives of the Irish Cancer Society presented a very sombre view of cancer services in Ireland. There is much to be proud of in our public health system, but there is also a lot to be concerned about...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: Yesterday, a majority of MEPs voted to support the EU migration pact. There was also opposition to the pact, and in the European Parliament some of the commentary on the pact is that it is regressive in terms of human rights, xenophobic and reactionary in not upholding the right to seek asylum in the EU. Does the Tánaiste believe signing up to this pact is the right course of action...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: Good morning. I thank the witness for her statement this morning. My first question surrounds someone who has been given a diagnosis of cancer. As for counselling and back-up, and the trauma someone has after hearing that diagnosis, is there any kind of model or intervention out there for someone to get counselling with his or her diagnosis? I had a very recent experience with a close...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: Yes, but that is good to know. I have quite a profound question for Professor Kennedy. I am not sure he will be able to answer this, but can there ever be a cure for cancer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: Cancer has been termed an industrialised disease. Would Professor Kennedy agree with that term?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: Obviously, the social determinants are a huge factor. In the fifties, sixties and seventies, smoking was seen as in some ways trendy, but highly processed foods are now seen as a huge determinant of bad health and possibly cancer. Would that hold weight?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: That is good to know. I am happy enough with that and to give somebody else a chance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: All of my questions are for Ms Murphy. The first is about the national screening service for breast cancer. The witnesses will correct me if I am wrong but I understand that programme covers women from the ages of 50 to 69 and provides one mammogram every two years. Ms Murphy is indicating that is correct. There is good evidence that lowering the screening age to 40, as is the case in a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: Is Ms Murphy saying there are seven cancers detected among every 1,000 people aged 50 to 69 who are screened?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: As I stated at the outset, some European countries start screening from the age of 40.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: In fact, I understand the majority of EU countries start at the age of 40.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: How prevalent is breast cancer among those aged under 50? The statistics I have to hand indicate that cohort accounts for 25% of all breast cancer diagnoses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank Dr. McCarthy. The information I have indicates under-50s account for 25% of diagnoses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: That is in line with what I have. I thank Ms Murphy.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (9 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: 419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the latest developments on the refurbishment of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13893/24]