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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: In alluding to the National Cancer Registry Ireland report published about inequalities in cancer care, Ms Power, by and large, answered my next question. As long as we have inequality in our health system, we will continue to have inequalities, particularly in diagnostic care. If people have access to better healthcare because of their financial circumstances, they will be diagnosed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Treatment Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: I thank the witnesses for their statements. Long Covid is an important issue in respect of the health service. The statements make for sombre and depressing reading. It is incredible that there have been almost 6,000 assaults against nursing and midwifery staff in less than two years. That is unbelievable. I do not know what is happening to society if we are sanitising this level of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: Has the pandemic, which now spans two years, compounded some of the issues that have manifested, in particular in emergency departments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: As I said, the statement makes for sombre reading. People have to go to work and be subjected that behaviour.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: Unions have said that due to staffing levels in particular areas, the environment is almost dangerous and is not conducive to a healthy environment for staff. If this is the case, it will trickle down to those people awaiting intervention in emergency departments. This situation is quite insidious. My final question, which is on whistleblowers in the health service, is for all the union...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: I think am running out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: No. If I ask a question, I will go on for another few minutes.

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: I want to set out that this is no doubt quite a complicated issue, spans four or five decades and is somewhat opaque as to the interpretation of the care that should be given to our citizens. In this case we are talking about long-stay nursing home care. The central tenet to the critique the Attorney General has set out, and I and others would argue this point, is that those who had an...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: In today's edition of The Irish Times, new data suggests that almost 1,300 people died over the winter due to delays in hospital admissions from accident and emergency departments. That is 174 higher than the previous winter. To put this into context, this exceeds the 155 people who unfortunately died in road traffic accidents in Ireland last year. The report states, "...questions needed...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: I put it to the Minister, Deputy Humphreys, that while the Government has put in place welcome measures to mitigate the cost of living, they do not in any way go far enough. We can see this with energy costs and the cost of food and so on. This crisis impacts the least well-off in society who are on low incomes and fixed payments. When people must resort to food banks we have a huge...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: Adult education tutors will organise a protest outside Leinster House today at 1 o'clock to demand improved terms and conditions for their job. They state they are not treated properly compared to other public servants. They have a number of issues around pay parity and the public services contract. This is a protracted set of circumstances. Last September, the then Department of Public...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Inquiries (16 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: 2. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will indicate his support for a public inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied) who was killed in a hit-and-run by a driver while cycling near his home in Carrickmacross on 2 August 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8015/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Inquiries (16 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: Will the Minister indicate his support for a public inquiry in relation to the death of Shane O'Farrell, which happened in August 2011? He was killed in a hit-and-run incident. Many of us would argue that death was completely unlawful and it could have been prevented. I would like to hear the Minister's opinion concerning the call from Shane's family and many of his supporters for a public...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Inquiries (16 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: I thank the Minister. Many of us have spoken about Shane O'Farrell, who was killed 12 years ago. He should be alive today, if it was not for the systemic failure of our judicial system regarding what happened on that day. Shane and his family continue to be failed concerning that fatal day. The injustice lingers. Not only does grief linger but also injustice in the context of that family...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Inquiries (16 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: When will that report be brought to Cabinet? That is very important. Equally, how will it proceed after that? In 2019, both Houses passed a motion calling for a public inquiry. Before I came in, I looked at the definition of a "public inquiry". There are four main points of a public inquiry: to establish the facts, to learn lessons, to restore public confidence and to determine...