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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Gino Kenny: I do not want to personalise this but the combined salary of Mr. Reid and Mr. Watt is over €700,000 per year. It is a colossal amount of money which equates to 18 nurses' annual salary. Do they think they are worth that colossal amount while people wait years, in some cases, for the most basic public health?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Gino Kenny: I thank Deputy Lahart for letting me in.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (15 Feb 2022)

Gino Kenny: 760. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the lack of staff and resourcing for the national child and adolescent mental health service and the damage caused to children and adolescents by the consequent over and inappropriate medication of children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5418/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Feb 2022)

Gino Kenny: 761. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the lack of statistics from the HSE regarding the number of children who have been hospitalised with Covid-19 since December 2021 in the context of the high number of Covid-19 infections being reported in children during January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5419/22]

Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (22 Feb 2022)

Gino Kenny: The decision by the Government to delay a citizens' assembly on drug use is an affront to the debate. How any Government can prioritise a directly elected mayor over the urgent debate on drug use is beyond comprehension. Let us provide the context. This issue has been delayed for decades while thousands of people die and rot. The assembly that should be in the dock is not the citizens'...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (24 Feb 2022)

Gino Kenny: 292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will immediately establish an expert review group to examine the minimum essential qualification and issue recommendations in relation to special needs assistants, SNAs; if a clear commitment will be given to implement the expert group recommendation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10534/22]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Gino Kenny: What is the breakdown of medical specialties in the recruitment of those additional staff? On what specialties is the HSE trying to focus its recruitment process?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Gino Kenny: What is the breakdown for recruitment in the different community healthcare organisations, CHOs? Is it possible to provide that information or to detail what the main geographical health regions are in the State? Can the Minister provide figures for that?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Gino Kenny: Private hospitals are an integral part of public healthcare and I disagree with that. Universal healthcare should be untiered. The Minister would be of the opinion that universal healthcare is the best road to provide healthcare for the country. I refer to private healthcare capacity this year compared with before the pandemic. What kind of resources from the overall budget will go...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Gino Kenny: My next question is on the recruitment of additional neurological nurses. Some 57 extra neurological nurses are needed in Dublin alone and a further 43 are needed outside Dublin. Is there an overall plan for the recruitment of neurological nurses?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Gino Kenny: I have a question on staff retention, which is one of the most important issues the health service faces. One statistic shows that in the past three years, there has been a 44% increase in the number of doctors leaving the State after graduating. It is very concerning that graduate doctors are leaving the State. People leave the State after graduating for all sorts of reasons but among the...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Gino Kenny: Following his engagement with junior doctors and graduate doctors and having listened to some of their testimony, what one change would the Minister make?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (1 Mar 2022)

Gino Kenny: 673. To ask the Minister for Health if there is currently a hormone replacement therapy shortage; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that women are reporting not being able to fill prescriptions for hormone patches in a significant number of pharmacies and are left with few options other than to travel to the North to source the treatment; the steps that are being taken to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Mar 2022)

Gino Kenny: 189. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1415 of 19 January 2022, if there are further updates in relation to the matter. [11886/22]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Gino Kenny: I thank the Minister for his statement. It is quite comprehensive, to say the least. Obviously, funding and resourcing our public health service is welcome. Over the past two years, it has been challenged like never before. It has risen to that challenge, particularly the front-line staff, who have come under the barrage of a virus that we are hopefully seeing recede into the background....

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Gino Kenny: What are the recruitment targets for the four quarters of this year? Will there be a staggered approach? I know there are barriers to recruitment. For which periods in the year is the HSE aiming to recruit these staff?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Mar 2022)

Gino Kenny: 692. To ask the Minister for Health if a legislative framework to support the rolling out of free contraception for persons aged 17 to 25 years is on track to be before the Houses of the Oireachtas before the summer 2022 recess; the work that is currently taking place to address concerns regarding capacity among providers and the need for additional training and certification in long...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Expenditure (10 Mar 2022)

Gino Kenny: 2. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on Ireland’s defence spending into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13465/22]