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Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Co-operation (23 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: 1976.To ask the Minister for Health the details of how patients from Ireland availed of cataract removal surgery under the Northern Ireland planned healthcare scheme. [30947/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (23 Jul 2024)

Gino Kenny: 2000.To ask the Minister for Health the amount the HSE has spent to date on overall costs since it took statutory control of a nursing home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31016/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (18 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: 703. To ask the Minister for Health if the review by his Department of the medical cannabis access programme has commenced; if so, when the review will be concluded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36430/24]

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank the witnesses for their comments which have been very insightful. I wish to follow on from what Deputy Ó Murchú was saying. Obviously, there has been much reporting in the media recently about synthetic opioids. There are horror stories from the United States and elsewhere. The supply from Afghanistan may dry up and the drug market would need to fill that vacuum with...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: Obviously, this situation evolves very quickly and we are at the mercy of the drug market.

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: I agree. The HSE and all the allied bodies reacted very quickly in terms of this substance that is out in the open and so forth. A lot of people have to be congratulated on that. I would like to speak about the proliferation of all drugs which evolve. For example, with cannabis at the moment there is a big issue with HHC. It is a semi-synthetic cannabinoid and there are a lot of...

Committee on Drugs Use: Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: It is probably a debate for another day. Prescribed drugs are prescribed by a doctor or pharmacist. I will use the term "leakage" to describe the phenomenon whereby where these drugs are sold on the street. There is obviously a dependency issue with these drugs. These drugs are sold by companies that make enormous profits. How concerned is Dr. O'Driscoll in terms of leakage, particularly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank the board for its presentation, which was very detailed. I am sure the witnesses are extremely frustrated, to say the least, by this soap opera. In the meantime, the taxpayer, everybody in the country, is on the hook for this and there is obviously no hospital. Do the witnesses accept the statement BAM made during the week to the effect that the hospital is 93% complete?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: It is in everybody's interests that this is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: On the other 10%, what is left to complete the hospital?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: None of those are complete or signed off at this moment in time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: In Mr. Devine's opinion, are any of the rooms at any stage where they could be signed off, where we could say they are complete and the construction workers can move on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: Does Mr. Devine envisage that when a tranche of rooms is given the green light it will happen quickly? It will not be a case of a single room being ready for Tuesday. I presume hundreds will be ready.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: Those resources are not there, in Mr. Devine's opinion, when it comes to BAM's commitment to signing off on these rooms.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: These are quite obvious questions, but if the contractor committed those resources to finalise those rooms things would move very quickly on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: It seems like common sense.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: Yes, but at the moment the board is saying that with the baseline programme, there is an absence of a commitment by BAM to even do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: I hope this does not happen, but is there a situation where this just goes on and on and the hospital is never finished at the level of final details. While there is intransigence from BAM, could this go on and on until the Government says that if BAM is not going to complete the job it will have to get somebody else in? That would delay the project for years, I assume.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: On the claims that are in litigation, there is a concentration of claims. I think 18 was the figure given. What is the dispute between BAM and the State? What is at the heart of that dispute?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: That is fair enough.