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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: I want to raise an issue regarding the shortage of public health nurses in early childhood development. These are vital services for new mothers. Several parents have contacted me and other Deputies in Dublin Mid-West to inform us there are no public health nurses whatsoever. They have been told by the HSE that they will not have one for at least 18 months. This is completely...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (4 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: 388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a school (details supplied) in relation to a new building for a school; and if she will fast-track these build plans urgently. [48200/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (4 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: 691. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the clinical review of the Medical Cannabis Access Programme; when the review will commence; the length of time that it will take to conclude; when the report will be made public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48465/22]

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: I wish to share time with Deputies Boyd Barrett and Barry.

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: I welcome this very important motion on free transport. I think there is a very valid argument in regard to public transport being free, accessible and of top quality. All the evidence suggests that where we have such a system, people will use it. I always remember going to Europe for the very first time and being amazed by the system of public transport. It was the thing that stood out...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: Over the weekend at the Fianna Fáil Ard-Fheis, the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, claimed that health service waiting lists have been stabilised. The reality is very different. The reality is that more than 900,000 people at present are on some form of public health or hospital waiting list, which is completely unacceptable. Can the Taoiseach justify what the Minister,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [44844/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (6 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: 2. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to the Israeli ambassador to Ireland on the death of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49391/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (6 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: My question relates to the murder of a seven-year-old boy named Rayyan Suleiman who was chased to his death by the Israeli army. Has the Minister spoken to the Israeli ambassador in Ireland in respect of that murder and the countless others that have occurred in the past year?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (6 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: I have here a photograph of Rayyan Suleiman. He was a seven-year-old boy whose only crime was being Palestinian. That was his crime. The Israeli army took that young boy from his family. He is not the only one. Some 20 children have this year been killed by the Israeli army. The Minister does not have to listen to me. He can listen to former United Nations High Commissioner for Human...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (6 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: What the Minister has said is all well and good but Israel is not a normal state. This year alone, 100 Palestinians have been killed by excessive force and collective punishment by the Israeli Defence Forces. As I said, 20 children were among the dead. This is a policy that runs through the Israeli state to crush any Palestinian resistance. That is how states such as Israel exist and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (6 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: 31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on recent French naval exercises off the coast of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34165/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: No problem. I thank all our guests. The national children's hospital is an important subject. Construction of this hospital has been an ongoing issue in recent decades and it will finally take place. I visited the site a number of months ago along with a number of other Deputies and Senators and it is extremely impressive. When it is finished it will be a major asset to our public health...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: Is it plausible that this could reach the €2 billion mark? Obviously, if we look at the commentary around this, particularly this year, all indications are that it will. There is a big question mark on this. Is it plausible that this construction could go to the €2 billion mark given all the mitigating circumstances that are involved with this? We all understand they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: Is it plausible?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: I again raise the issue of the Covid-19 pandemic recognition payment. There was much fanfare about this payment and we all supported it but many workers have not received it. They include many care assistants who work in the private sector. They were outside the Department of Health today and issued 1,700 individual letters to that Department on the non-payment of this. It is shambolic....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: Care assistants, front-line workers. Everybody was clapping them six months or a year ago and now they get nothing.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: It is shambolic.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinetcommittee that deals with matters relating to justice will next meet. [44843/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: This Government and previous Governments have failed to grasp the winds of change in drug reform. When other states are changing course, I would argue that this State has stagnated in drug reform. In the past 20 years 10,000 people in this State have died of drug-related deaths, which is an incredible statistic. That is 500 people every year in the State. I would argue that if these...