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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (25 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: 191. To ask the Minister for Health when the clinical review of the medical cannabis access programme will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3638/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (26 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: 160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that a mechanism is put in place for councils/AHBs to buy homes where there is a notice to quit and the tenants are above the income limits for social housing but below the limit for cost rental; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3713/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: The individual health identifier was widely used during the pandemic. Since the pandemic, how much is this identifier being used in everyday health settings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: How long will it take to roll out this programme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: There is the substantial issue of the extent to which Irish hospitals are digitised with regard to their paper base. I am pretty taken aback by the answer. Professor Martin Curley of Maynooth University reckons that 85% of all Irish hospitals remain paper based. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: Professor Curley is correct that 85% of hospitals are still-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: It is definitely north of 50%. Professor Curley says it is 85% so the figure is somewhere in between.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: I presume it will take a long time to make the change to digitisation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: Obviously, digitisation can be done. It has been done in other jurisdictions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: Yes, we are doing it but we are way behind. Considering Ireland has all these IT companies-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: There are obviously huge advantages for efficiency in digitalisation but there are also possible pitfalls.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: What pitfalls?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: This wonderful technology that we have is a great thing. Yet, regarding patient confidentiality, patient input and patients seeing their medical records, is this a game-changer in the digitisation of medical records? Obviously, what goes on is still basically paper based. Most medical records can now be done in real time, not only for the doctor or the nurse, but also for the patient....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: Forty-five minutes for a shift is impressive.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: My question relates to nursing home charges, which is an ongoing issue. I understand this goes back a number of decades and the information can be quite opaque, but it raises many questions regarding how the Department of Health and successive governments dealt with this issue. My question is valid and it is to be hoped the Taoiseach can answer it. There are issues in respect of families...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: Financial liabilities to families that are going through the courts. According to this document, some €5 billion is-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (31 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the proposed running order of the citizens' assemblies. [3413/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (31 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: My question is the same. The programme for Government stated that there would be a citizens' assembly in relation to drug use and the broader question of decriminalisation. We have waited and waited, but as of yet there has not been a date, which is disappointing. This issue has gone on for decades and the status quois completely unacceptable. It is unacceptable on the basis that as long...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: We spoke about this issue on Thursday when there was an in-depth debate about the present situation in CAMHS. I said on Thursday and I will say again that the lack of clinical oversight was the main critique of the interim report by the Mental Health Commission. Without oversight, there will be serious issues in regard to everything relating to a service such as CAMHS. I acknowledge the...