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Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: I will give the final word to Dr. Healy.

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank Dr. Healy. That concludes the meeting on a very good note. I thank the members and especially the witnesses for their contributions. We had a very good conversation. Let us see what happens in the time ahead when the committee finalises its work. I thank the witnesses for their time. I also thank the staff here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank the witnesses for their statements. My first question is on the recruitment embargo. Obviously, this embargo lasted for a year and had a detrimental effect on the health service. Would I be right in saying that the pay and numbers strategy is almost a continuation of the embargo but just with a different name? If that is the case, and it seems to be the case where there is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: On the pay and numbers strategy, it seems like a funny name given to an instrument that is basically enforcing the embargo. Will the witnesses simplify it for the likes of me and those who are listening in? What actually is it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Staffing Levels in HSE: Discussion (2 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: Obviously, the pay and numbers strategy is going down like a lead balloon with the unions. I have a final question and it is probably to Ms Ní Sheaghdha. On the public health nurses, this is a very acute issue in CHO 7. I am going to focus in on CHO 7, Clondalkin and Lucan, where there are no public health nurses whatsoever. I asked a parliamentary question recently, and the HSE...

Committee on Drugs Use: A Health-Led Approach: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank Ms Kearney for that statement. I invite Mr. Mullins to give his opening statement.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: 26. To ask the Minister for Health the reason many children with scoliosis continue to suffer while they are left waiting indefinitely for essential life-changing surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39363/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (3 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: 41. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the HSE’s 2024 pay and numbers strategy has resulted in many health service posts being eliminated and that this is causing immense problems across the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39360/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (3 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: 46. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the severe operational difficulties the HSE’s 2024 pay and numbers strategy has caused across the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39359/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: 47. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) recently stated that the three main hospital waiting lists may increase by over 74,700 by the end of 2024 if current trends continue, an increase of 11% compared with the start of the year, and that the HSE’s 2024 waiting list targets are increasingly unlikely to be met; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (3 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: 59. To ask the Minister for Health if the clinical review of the medical cannabis access programme has been progressed; the current status of the programme; and when he plans to publish the findings. [39362/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: 519. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made by the HSE on the reimbursement of fenfluramine (fintepla) for the treatment of refractory epilepsy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39728/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: United Nations (10 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: 2. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the Irish delegation did not join the many delegations that walked out during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the UN General Assembly on 27 September in protest at Israel’s genocide in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40782/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: United Nations (10 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: On 27 September Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech at the UN. Many delegates left when he spoke. Why did the Irish delegation not join the many people who refused to listen to a warmonger like Netanyahu?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: United Nations (10 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: These are abnormal times. Cordiality and protocol should go out the door. If the Tánaiste had been there when this warmonger was speaking, would he have listened or would he have left? Many people from across the world, particularly the developing world, left because they did not want to listen to this man who has killed more than 40,000 people in Gaza, including 21,000 children. If...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: United Nations (10 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: I acknowledged it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: United Nations (10 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: I will not acknowledge it again. I will not be so kind again.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: United Nations (10 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: They should have done so.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: United Nations (10 Oct 2024)

Gino Kenny: The Tánaiste has been very inconsistent. We have called for the expulsion of the Russian ambassador and the Israeli ambassador. Both of them should be expelled for the war crimes they are committing. The Tánaiste needs to go beyond words. One of the things we have been calling for is enactment of the occupied territories Bill. Can the Tánaiste imagine if the Government had...