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Other Questions: Refugee Resettlement Programme (5 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: 48. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will use his discretionary powers in a humanitarian manner to allow relatives of Syrian residents here, who may be in equally dangerous situations as those of refugees, apply for family reunification under the family reunification humanitarian admission programme; his plans to redefine "family member" using the broader...

Other Questions: Refugee Resettlement Programme (5 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: I am happy for the Minister to answer the question.

Other Questions: Refugee Resettlement Programme (5 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: I am sure the Minister is aware and that everyone in this House is cognisant of the human catastrophe that is the Syrian civil war which seems to be unabating. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have fled Syria in search of refuge. In some cases, families have been split apart not by the chaos of war but the chaos of escaping it. The family reunification humanitarian admission programme is...

Other Questions: Refugee Resettlement Programme (5 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: The new scheme is very prescriptive. It does not include grandparents, parents or brothers or sisters of a Syrian refugee trying to make a new life for himself or herself here. I welcome the Minister's statement on the costs of relatives of those seeking refuge here. The Minister was correct when he said that we have a housing crisis. However, consider what we are doing about the arms...

Topical Issue Debate: UN Conventions (5 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: I seem to have been struck by the curse of Dáil déjà vubecause I recall raising the issue of Ireland's ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities with the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, this time last year, almost to the day. One year on, we appear to be in exactly the same position, unless the Minister of State is about...

Topical Issue Debate: UN Conventions (5 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: That is all well and good - I do not want to be sceptical because I am not a sceptic by nature - but I heard all this, last year and in February. I asked the Minister of State when would this be ratified and he stated it would be a couple of weeks before Christmas. The reply is ambiguous. Can Deputy Finian McGrath give an exact date when the UNCRPD will be ratified? To say that it will...

Topical Issue Debate: UN Conventions (5 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: It is the exact same.

Topical Issue Debate: UN Conventions (5 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: It is the exact same.

Topical Issue Debate: UN Conventions (5 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: The Minister of State said exactly the same last year.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify if there are outstanding issues or if further information is required regarding the progress and upgrade of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52055/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (5 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: 223. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will be ratified, in view of the fact that 3 December 2017 marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51956/17]

Neurological Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: I support the motion. I commend Deputy Murphy O'Mahony on it. It reads well, but is shocking. It is an indictment, not only on neurological services in Ireland but the health service in general. Many Members in this Chamber have been vocal about how health apartheid is rampant in the health service. One sees people who must struggle every day for basic health services. Some of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (6 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: 49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to review his Department's policy on the provision of Irish language classes to children with an autism diagnosis in their main learning environment, specifically the non-provision of the subject to children in a school (details supplied) who attend a class for those with an autism diagnosis; his views on whether this is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (6 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: 56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reconsider the recent cuts in learning support and resource allocation to a school (details supplied) which has meant that the school has effectively lost the services of a full-time teacher in this area; his views on he impact that this has had on the school, the staff and the pupils; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (6 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the guidelines or Department policy regarding the voluntary contributions that many schools now request from parents of students as a matter of course; his views on the pressure that this puts on many families that are struggling to make ends meet; his further views on the fact that schools need to do this due to the fact that State funding...

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: On 1 December last year the Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 that I tabled passed Second Stage and on 9 November 2017 it was agreed that it would go to Committee Stage. Last week, I received two documents on the same day, one from the Ceann Comhairle, for which I thank him, and one from the office of the Minister for Health stating that the Bill will be stifled on a money...

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: It is the money message.

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: I commend the independent rural alliance on the motion.

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: Okay.

Home Care Packages: Motion [Private Members] (12 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: They are very pedantic. I will get it right the next time. I commend them on the bulk of their motion but there are certain things with which I do not agree, though they are for another day. Having worked as a care assistant for the past 16 years of my life, and for five years as a home care worker before I came in here, I understand the vital importance of home care work, not only for the...