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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Consent and Capacity: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: Is it the case that the person can be refused if there is doubt?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Consent and Capacity: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: In New Zealand, which introduced assisted dying two years ago, a number of cases were refused on the basis that they did not fit the criteria.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Consent and Capacity: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: Is that in Victoria?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Consent and Capacity: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: Obviously, the person has to be trusted because trust in the person is sometimes at the heart of the debate. It has to be the person's decision; it cannot be anybody else's. The assisted decision-making legislation has been talked about for a long time. In the witnesses' opinion, has dealing with assisted-dying legislation become less or more complicated as a result of it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Consent and Capacity: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: Today has been extremely informative. There was an opinion poll in the Business Postthis Sunday that indicated the overwhelming majority of respondents would support changing the legislation. All previous polls indicate the same. There is overwhelming support in Ireland not only for a debate on this issue but also for going beyond that to legislate. It is obviously up to us to make that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Consent and Capacity: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: Dr. Campbell made a very good point on why that is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Consent and Capacity: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: That is an extremely important point. I thank Dr. Campbell.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (27 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the non-statutory public service modernisation, development and reform functions for which his Department is responsible. [30980/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (27 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: Ireland's health budget runs to €20 billion per year. Ireland spends roughly the same on healthcare per capitaas Denmark and Austria but yet while Austria and Denmark are third and fourth on the CEOWorld Magazine's healthcare ranking index, Ireland is 80th. The difference between Austria and Denmark and Ireland in relation to healthcare spending is quite extraordinary. They rank...
- Nursing Home Care: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: I will be sharing time with Deputy Barry. I thank Sinn Féin for this very important motion on nursing home and elder care. There are obviously viability issues in the nursing home sector and if we had the same speeches 25 years ago, we would be talking about a different composition of nursing home care. At that time in Ireland, it was 80% owned by the public and 20% owned by the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (27 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: 679. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he has not engaged with an organisation (details supplied) in relation to pay for services, as required by the Public Service Pay and Pension Act 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30853/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: I am sorry that I was late earlier on. I could not get out of a speaking engagement. I thank the witnesses for coming today. It is very welcome that we are having this discussion in the Joint Committee on Health. Many of us, particularly the men, would never have heard of endometriosis. I certainly had not. I could hardly pronounce the word a number of years ago but I developed a better...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: Has the waiting time for a diagnosis reduced over time? I have heard people say it can take years before a diagnosis is made. Is that still the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: Is there a lack of understanding and knowledge among GPs regarding this condition?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: How can that be rectified?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: I think there would be very different outcomes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: Would it be correct to say that knowledge among the medical profession about the condition has improved over the last few years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: How many of those who have been diagnosed with endometriosis will need surgery?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)
Gino Kenny: I have heard Romania mentioned many times as a country that specialises in the condition. Do many women go to Romania for surgery?