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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Canada: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: I thank everybody for their submissions, and good evening from Ireland. My first question is to ensure I am interpreting things right. Any of the five contributors can correct me if I am wrong. Is anybody opposed to assisted dying, even in the most limited circumstances? If anybody opposes assisted dying in the most limited circumstance, maybe they could say it or indicate it. By that, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Canada: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: So people go through palliative or hospice care and, at the end of that juncture, they may choose voluntary assisted dying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Canada: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: On public opinion in Canada, I presume there is support for voluntary assisted dying. There may be concerns about broadening the criteria. Even those who are in the middle of this debate will probably have concerns, and that is perfectly legitimate. I introduced a Bill on this issue three years ago. I fully support the personal choice of those who want to avail of assisted dying and think...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Canada: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: My first question relates to lessons we can learn from Canada. As legislators, as I said earlier, we are trying to address this issue as a committee. On many occasions, popular support has been expressed in Ireland for changing the law on assisted dying. There is popular support in Ireland, Britain and most other European countries. As legislators, we have to listen to popular support,...

Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: I too welcome the O'Farrell family. We have spoken about Shane many times over the last seven or eight years. One does not have to have a forensic mind to understand that Shane O'Farrell should have been alive today. We should not even be speaking about him but because of systematic failures in all strands of the authorities, Shane is dead and we cannot bring him back. There is one thing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [43871/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: There is huge concern about a cohort of patients who rely on new drugs and treatments. Bizarrely, in this year's budget the funding for these treatments has been taken away. This will affect thousands of patients. Like all Deputies, I received an email about a person who relies on a particular drug and has been told by their doctor that they will not get it. The person will have to leave...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: The only thing that brings about peace is a political settlement - a settlement that means people can coexist regardless of their creed. That coexistence cannot exist under a system of oppression and occupation. In fact, it is an affront to the concept. Nobody wants to see anybody die, regardless of whether they are Jewish, Muslim, Christian or of no religion at all, but decades of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: 483. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make funding available for a drug from Merck called sotatercept, this drug which has had positive results to treat pulmonary hypertension a condition that is progressive and incurable effecting heart and lungs. [44643/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: 484. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that will be available for new drugs and clinical trials in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44644/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: 485. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if reports that no funding for new drugs and clinical trials will be available for 2024 are correct. [44645/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: The Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use will meet for the final time this weekend. It has been going on for the last six months and was a much-needed debate. All indications from the assembly will point to a different approach. We have had an approach that has failed for the last six decades. Indications from the assembly are that they will call for decriminalisation and possibly regulation,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

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Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: I acknowledge the really good work all our healthcare workers do on the front line of the health service. We rely on them so much for our care and everybody else's care. I am very critical of the inequalities in our health system but, as I have said many times, once people get into the public system, it is a very good system. They are treated very well and their experience is the best it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: I am. Five months ago when the report came out, Ms O'Shea said, in relation to the Taoiseach’s and Government’s response, that she was disconcerted and a bit of courage was needed in relation to the Government’s response. Does she still feel that way about the Government’s response to the report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: Where does Ms O’Shea see it going from here? Obviously, there are diverging opinions, even in the health committee. However, there is an inbuilt mechanism in the legislation in that there is a review and so forth. Ms O’Shea made recommendations. Now it is up to the legislators - the Government - to make those recommendations come through. Where does Ms O’Shea see it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: I refer to the Bill of 2018. I note Ms O’Shea stated in the report that it could be open to individuals to take the State to court in respect of the restrictions, particularly around certain aspects of that. I do not know if that is in train or if that has happened since the legislation was-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: In Ms O’Shea’s opinion, a case like the Mellet and Whelan cases could happen again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: To Ms O'Shea's knowledge, there has not been any kind of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: Five months ago, legislation tabled by Deputy Bríd Smith passed Second Stage. Therefore, there is a clear message from the Oireachtas that the recommendations Ms O'Shea made - and beyond - need to be legislated for. Between Ms O'Shea's report and the legislation passed in late May, there is a clear appetite to move this on. My instinct is that the Government is quite opaque about this...