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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (8 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: 491. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will expand on his comments where he spoke about greater involvement by Irish companies in the global military industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54796/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ukraine War (8 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: 492. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will detail Irish participation in an EU training exercise for the Ukrainian military; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54797/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Foreign Policy (8 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: 493. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline Ireland’s relationship with NATO under the NATO-PfP; the funding that Ireland has supplied under the NATO-PfP to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54798/22]

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

Gino Kenny: 1166. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a large number of Covid-19 swabbers currently employed in testing centres face lay-offs in late November 2022; the exact numbers planned for lay-offs; if these staff, who worked throughout the pandemic, will be redeployed elsewhere; if he will intervene to ensure that these front-line workers are kept on the payroll over the Christmas...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: I wish to express my solidarity with the tech workers this week with regard to the possible layoffs in the tech sector. The last week has shown that tech companies are quite ambiguous about employment laws in Ireland. There are penalties for breaching employment law in respect of notice of redundancy. Has the Tánaiste made the tech companies aware of this law and the penalties for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (9 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: 115. To ask the Minister for Health the new actions that he is proposing to take, in light of the news that over 27,000 persons left Ireland's emergency departments before receiving treatment between July and September 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55686/22]

Death of Vicky Phelan: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: We all knew that this day would come. Her family and close friends knew that this day would come. Vicky herself knew, deep down, that this day would come. We took Vicky into our collective hearts and now all our hearts are broken. I got to know Vicky a number of years ago in relation to the issue around assisted dying and she was vocal about that issue. She said to us that no matter what...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: We all know that there are enormous challenges in our emergency departments currently. Recently, the Irish Examinerreported that over 27,000 people were in emergency departments and they left without being treated. That is extremely worrying and it is a terrible reflection on the Government’s health policy. Is this a reflection that the health policy of the Government has failed?

Energy Regulations: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: I wish to share time with Deputy Bríd Smith.

Energy Regulations: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: We will see how it goes. I welcome the motion tabled by the Rural Independent Group. It is a good motion which touches on many issues concerning energy. One of the issues I wish to reference relates to the proliferation of data centres in the country. I refer specifically to the South Dublin County Council area where, currently, there are close to 50 data centres. It has the highest...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: My question is on the shortage of secondary school places. I can speak for Clondalkin in the constituency I represent, Dublin Mid-West. The shortage is so acute at the moment that a number of schools have large waiting lists of 50, 60 or 70 students. What normally happens is that most students will find a school in their vicinity. In the academic year starting next September, though,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: 177. To ask the Minister for Health if public health nurses will no longer be carrying out developmental routine baby and child checks unless the child is recommended by a medical practitioner as priority or considered priority by a public health nurse (details supplied); and if so, the reason that developmental routine checks for all children are no longer available. [56805/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: A year and a half ago, the Joint Committee on Justice recommended a special committee on the issue of assisted dying. To my knowledge, there is no impediment to the establishment of that committee. Can the Taoiseach give a commitment to the many people who have been following this issue that the committee will be established before Christmas because it has gone on far too long? We need to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (22 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: 105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions that he has taken on behalf of Ireland at UN level and EU level relating to the protest movement in Iran; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57534/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (15 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: 176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a policy change by the company operating the NCT service which sees unqualified staff conducting vehicle tests; if his Department has any concerns over the safety issues of using unqualified staff in such circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56265/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (15 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: 177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the current crisis of bus driver shortages and recruitment; the way in which the BusConnects programme can be implemented in Dublin, given the failure to retain and recruit sufficient drivers by all companies that are needed for the expansion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56266/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (15 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: 398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons who are in receipt of the disability allowance on a community employment scheme who started before 16 November 2022 will be issued with the one-off cost-of-living payment of €500 given that reports show that persons with a disability are the most vulnerable to poverty; and if the matter will be examined....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (15 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: 397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review will be carried out of community employment schemes with a focus on persons with a disability, given that it is currently not suitable for disability allowance recipients (details supplied). [56542/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (24 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: 2. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the progress of the interim report by the independent review group into sexual abuse in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57624/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Investigations (24 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: My question is on the interim report by the independent review group on sexual abuse in the Defence Forces. This is the most serious of matters. The Women of Honour group has brought this to the attention not only of the Army but also the State. It wants an update on the interim report, which the Minister has probably seen.