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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: I again emphasise the amount of public money that has been invested by governments in private companies to research this vaccine. It runs into tens of billions at this stage. At the crux of this argument, because we can talk about and almost intellectualise why companies have to have property rights to what they create, we are talking about an emergency that the world has not seen for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: I thank the Minister of State and the other witnesses for attending. I want to cut to the chase. The elephant in the room is whether the current drugs policy in Ireland is working. I would say it is not and will continue not to work in relation to the prevalence of drugs in our society. Obviously, drug prevalence has huge effects on the community. We have seen that the criminal justice...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: I do not wish to focus on one particular drug, namely, cannabis. There are far worse drugs in society than cannabis. There are drugs that will kill people and obliterate communities. That is factual. Some of the responses are kind of hysterical in terms of how people make observations regarding cannabis use in particular. Broadly speaking, the ongoing battle against drug crime and drug...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: The Minister of State is asking the wrong questions, unfortunately.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: 820. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements for the 2022 junior cycle exams; her views on the significant difficulties experienced by this cohort who have yet to have an uninterrupted school year since their entry into secondary education as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic; if there will be accommodations in view of this situation; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: 828. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new build for a school (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the fact that students are being deprived of the level of subject choices provided in other secondary schools due to the fact that the facilities are not available to deliver a full range of subjects; when the new building will be fully functional...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Death Certificates (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: 1047. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there have been changes to the way a person registers the death of a family member such as changes in an extension of the three month deadline or changes with walk-in offices if there must be an appointment during Covid-19 restrictions. [1916/22]

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

Gino Kenny: 1333. To ask the Minister for Health if he will conduct a review of service and staffing levels across the health service and ensure that extra permanent posts are sanctioned to ensure that the service can increase its capacity on a permanent basis to deal with non-Covid-19 care and the almost one million persons on waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2628/22]

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

Gino Kenny: 1334. To ask the Minister for Health if he will conduct a review of service and staffing levels across the mental health service and ensure that extra services and extra permanent posts are sanctioned to ensure that the mental health service can increase its capacity on a permanent basis to deal with the mental health crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2629/22]

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

Gino Kenny: 1415. To ask the Minister for Health if thighplasty is available as a treatment post weight loss via the HSE public system. [63167/21]

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

Gino Kenny: 1505. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many healthcare and social care workers are slipping into poverty as a result of low wages; his views on the contribution that these workers, many of whom are on the frontline have made during the Covid-19 pandemic; the steps that will be taken to address issue of low pay for workers in these sectors; the...

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

Gino Kenny: 1530. To ask the Minister for Health the improvements his Department is making in the area of healthcare for trans persons; his views on whether the current waiting time of over two and a half years to be first seen is unacceptable; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this has declined further during the Covid-19 pandemic; his views on the immense negative impact this is having...

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: We all were young once. Growing up is a difficult business in some ways. Some of us breeze through it and some of us do not.

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: Okay. Sometimes it is a generational thing. It is difficult, especially now. Being young now is very difficult. It brings its own challenges. One of them is in regard to intervention. We say that when a young person needs intervention it has to be there because early intervention is key. Most of us would say that intervention by mental health services for young people in this country...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: 578. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 924 of 2 November 2021, the status of the discussions and consideration mentioned in the reply regarding the availability of the EU Digital Covid Certificate for those who have been medically advised not to take the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3106/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (26 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: 188. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the release of Covid-19 statistics relating to children given that they have not been published for four weeks; if he will include age-related data for cases and hospitalisations especially given the recent case surge following the emergence of the omicron variant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3871/22]