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Joint Committee On Health: Resourcing and the Provision of Services at the Linn Dara CAMHS Unit: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Gino Kenny: I have one final question. I know it is a difficult question, but for those families and young people who use vital services such as Linn Dara, when the beds are reopened come September, could the same issue with recruitment and retention of staff arise again in three to four years' time? Obviously, if seven beds are not being used, young people who need intervention are not getting it, and...

Joint Committee On Health: Resourcing and the Provision of Services at the Linn Dara CAMHS Unit: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Gino Kenny: That is a very important point. There is no doubt that graduates want to work in the Irish health system, but because of circumstances regarding the proximity to the workplace, rent and so forth, it is not viable. If it was made viable for graduates, they would work in the Irish public health system. Circumstances are not allowing them to do that. If those issues were addressed, we would...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: Was Michael Collins in Fine Gael?

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: I am sharing time with Deputy Boyd Barrett. I see the Minister is leaving the Chamber.

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: I was about to let loose. I wonder whether the Minister has ever thought for one minute that the current housing policy and others that preceded it are and were wrong. I would like somebody on that side of the House to say, "You know what, I think we have got it wrong." I am not getting that sense and I do not think it will ever happen. To deal with the housing crisis, we must look at...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: 82. To ask the Minister for Health if he acknowledges that the medical cannabis access programme, MCAP, is not fulfilling its potential given that only 12 persons have been registered on the MCAP, the limitations to date and the programme’s upcoming clinical review. [38141/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: My question relates to a report commissioned five years ago, namely, Cannabis for Medical Use - A Scientific Review, which was commissioned from the Health Products Regulatory Authority, HPRA. One of the main recommendations was an access programme. That was five years ago. The programme has been extremely restrictive and has omitted many people who could benefit from medical cannabis. I...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: I think the Minister will agree with me the policy of a ministerial licence was from the outset overly bureaucratic and very arduous for parents. Many parents had to fight tooth and nail to get access for their children. I have always found it strange that with the more than 40 people who have ministerial licence, there is no joined-up thinking. There is no research done or joined-up...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: If the programme is not broadened in its conditions, I do not see it going anywhere for medical and commercial reasons. The Danish medical cannabis access programme has been open since 2018 and 2,500 patients have got medical cannabis products via prescription. Some of the conditions it is being prescribed for are not in the medical access programme here. One particular example of that is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: 88. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he has taken to ensure that an organisation (details supplied) is granted the pay parity with their laboratory colleagues that they have been seeking for 21 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37645/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: We saw during Covid-19, which is ongoing, the importance of laboratory scientists. A number of months ago those same laboratory scientists had to go on strike in relation to pay parity. What steps is the Minister taking to resolve this issue?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: I welcome the fact a settlement may be possible in regard to the ongoing discussions. These laboratory scientists have waited for more than 20 years for pay parity. Some of their colleagues doing similar work have been paid about 8% more than them. They were very patient indeed. The strike was hugely popular, publicly. Obviously the laboratory scientists did not want to be on strike....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: Hopefully, this anomaly can be resolved. The workers have been waiting a considerable amount of time. Another issue the laboratory scientists have touched on relates to vacant posts in the profession. They said one in five posts are vacant. That is obviously worrying in the context of qualified staff such as those. Hopefully, those posts can be filled. The Minister cannot predict what...

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: Landlords have never had it so good, to coin a phrase. Corporate landlords are having it really good. Corporate landlords were brought here after the crash by Fine Gael for one reason only, which was to make huge amounts of money. This is what they are doing. They own huge portfolios of apartments and houses throughout the State. In some cases they are getting paid by the State after...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: The Business Postreported that there was a lack of oversight in regard to procurement of personal protective equipment, PPE, in 2020. The figure referenced in the article was €770 million. In the HSE response to a parliamentary question I tabled last year, the figure was €1 billion spent on PPE. We all understand that, at that time, PPE was very difficult to get and it was...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: 107. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an organisation (details supplied) is consulting its members on taking industrial action on overcrowding in the country’s emergency departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37646/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: 135. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland’s abortion laws have been described by members of the United Nations Human Rights Committee as inhumane and discriminatory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37648/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: 138. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recent call by an organisation (details supplied) for ventilation in hospitals to be examined to ensure the safety of nurses and midwives in their workplaces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37647/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Thalidomide Victims Compensation (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: 139. To ask the Minister for Health if he has met with thalidomide survivors; the steps that he will take in relation to the serious issues affecting them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37649/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: 967. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a recently published report from the Health Research Board, National Drug Treatment Reporting System: 2015-2021 Drug Treatment Data, showing rapidly increasing drug use in Ireland; and if he will consider a different legal approach based on decriminalisation. [35957/22]