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Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: How many people have been prosecuted for simple possession of cannabis?

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: The figures are startling. Since 2021, 5,000 people have been issued with a caution for simple possession of cannabis, but in the same period, for simple possession, the figure for charges or summonses is 17,500. It is extraordinary, and that is why I am hugely critical of the lip service paid to harm reduction and so forth. Getting back to the nub of this issue, we are talking about...

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: My point is that if we continue the policy of criminalisation, of no control whatsoever and no regulation, we will continuously have this debate. I would argue that a better approach - and I think the majority of people would agree - would be decriminalisation of the drug user. I think that is a shift in public opinion but I think we need to go even beyond that and look at elements of...

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: Where? Which country is that?

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: The black market will probably continue, even if there is a regulated market.

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: There is a black market still for alcohol and tobacco, even though they are regulated and legal. There will always be a black market for these drugs, but as long as the State completely shuns its responsibility around regulation, we will have this conversation in ten years' time and people will die. It is as simple as that. This is the question we have to ask ourselves.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: Good morning, everybody. I have one question, as the others have been answered. If the legislation were passed tomorrow, what would that look like for the service providers and the individual's carers? The majority of the time they would be in individual's houses. How would that be regulated by HIQA? Our interpretation of a HIQA inspection is that it goes to the premises. It can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: Would there be a change in the qualification of the home care worker in that care environment if this legislation were passed?

Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2024: First Stage (25 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to establish a legal framework for assisted dying in Ireland. Three and a half years ago, I introduced the dying with dignity Bill. With the Bill, I tried to start a profound discussion around the issue of assisted dying. I understand this is a complex issue which can pose a lot of questions about one's mortality. With...

Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2024: First Stage (25 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: 2. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will call on President Biden to cease providing military aid and support to Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27744/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: My question relates to the ongoing slaughter in Gaza. Has the Tánaiste or his Administration had any contact with the American ambassador here or with Joe Biden about the continuing arming of Israel and its absolute genocide in Gaza?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: International law has gone out the door. In the past ten months, over 45,000 people have been murdered by the Israeli state, including 15,000 children. It is hard to believe. What we see daily on our news screens is almost impossible to comprehend. This is akin to what the Nazis were doing in occupied Europe. Joe Biden was welcomed with open arms in this country, in some ways...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I want to see all hostages released. We all want to see peace and a settlement in the Middle East. The Minister may not agree with this, but those resisting Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank have a right to engage with the Israeli Defense Forces. They have a right because they are being occupied, murdered and slaughtered. It is an incredible statistic, but since 7 October $23...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: Yesterday, representatives from Alone were before the health committee speaking about the home care sector. One of the contributors said that a statutory home care scheme was first mentioned in this House in 1968. I looked back and that is correct. A scheme like this was first mooted back in the late 1960s. We have been talking about this for a considerable amount of time and it still has...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: What has this got to do with the debate?

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank the witnesses for their opening statements. They were quite enlightening and informative about this very complex debate. Drug use is a reality. We have been trying to grapple with the situation for the past 50 years in Ireland and elsewhere. It involves how to look at different forms of stopping criminalising people because that has not worked and has been counterproductive. My...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (27 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: Professor Stevens has to send me the book.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: 22. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will call on President Biden to stop providing military aid and support to Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27523/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Neutrality (27 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: 27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will commit to a referendum on enshrining neutrality in the Constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27525/24]