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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: At least Mr. Gloster is being honest. My final question is around the neuro-rehabilitation services. At the moment how many optimal beds are in the State in terms of neurological services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: From my research, there are 100 beds in the State for neurological services, which is two thirds below what should be in place. Am I correct in saying that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: Are most of them concentrated in Dublin?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: Are all of them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: In my constituency, there are 15 beds in Peamount Hospital. There are plans for possibly another 25 beds in that hospital. Is there any update?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: Is there a timeframe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: Will Mr. Canavan explain what exactly a managed clinical rehabilitation network is?

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank the commander. It is very refreshing to hear a police officer speaking very frankly about this issue. I have just one question on the illicit market for illegal drugs. Portugal has been more progressive in this regard than Ireland. On the flip side, the illicit market in Ireland is controlled by a number of very violent and powerful criminal gangs. What is the situation in...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank Mr. Leitão da Silva.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank Mr. Glynn and Dr. Ó Concubhair for their opening statements. My first question is for Dr. Ó Concubhair. This debate has probably evolved in the past five or six years in terms of where people are at, both politicians and the public. We have progressed to a point where people are thinking about alternatives to what we have had in the past six decades, which was a complete...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: I 100% agree. That is my concern in terms of where this debate is going. Some of us in the committee have those concerns. There is opposition from the top down, and from the bottom up, in terms of where we want to go. When the dust settles on what the committee agrees, the next Government will have to deal with it. There is still huge conservatism among the powers that be, particularly...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: My question is about a parallel universe but I will pose it anyway. We all agree alcohol is an accepted drug, whether in Britain or Ireland, for better or for worse. It is accepted, taxed, readily available and marketed very cleverly by alcohol companies. There are obviously health consequences to alcohol consumption, particularly dependency, and it will kill tens of thousands of people,...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: Surely the lesson is that the war on drugs has been an absolute failure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: This is a very interesting subject matter. In terms of ultra-processed foods, there has been much commentary in relation to processed foods that are high in salt, saturates and so forth. There is commentary that these foods should be labelled. I know that in some countries in South America they are labelled with distinctive labels in terms of these ultra-processed foods. Would the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: Obviously, there is a responsibility on these huge companies in terms of marketing and how they sell these products but it seems to be the wild west in terms of how this food is actually marketed. If you go into a supermarket, it is like they play mind games with you, especially children when they go into this space. We obviously have to go in because it is a necessary evil. However, if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank the Minister of State. I refer to the issue around social determinants, which I believe is an enormous issue in working class areas where people are finding it difficult to put food on the table. People might do it but at a lower quality. That is feeding into childhood obesity, and so forth. That will have a trigger effect on a child when they are growing up because they will have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: Have many people taken up those posts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: How much is that sugar tax worth per year and how much revenue has it generated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: Is that only in fizzy drinks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: Are there any thoughts on bringing in a salt tax? I do not want to be in the nanny state area here but some of these foods are absolutely-----