Results 661-680 of 4,359 for speaker:Gino Kenny
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Availability (12 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the sale of legal hemp products such as clothing, bags and cannabidiol, CBD, oil is being hampered by banks' refusal to extend credit and debit card payment facilities to businesses selling these products in view of the fact they inaccurately deem the sales illegal; the legal position in terms of this...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (12 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: 255. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made in relation to the libre continuous glucose monitoring system being made widely available to persons with type 1 diabetes here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52637/17]
- Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: 31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he will make known his views on President Donald Trump's formal recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and acknowledge the potentially destructive consequences for the region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53037/17]
- Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: My question relates to the announcement of Donald Trump's formal recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the consequences for the region.
- Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: I do not know who writes the Minister's statements but surely he does not believe that. Surely he does not believe that, as the two-state solution is non-existent? What happened last week was a deeply incendiary act by Donald Trump and was calculated to cause a reaction in the Middle East. Jerusalem will never be the capital of Israel and should never be formally recognised by the EU....
- Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: While there is a conflict here, it is a David and Goliath conflict and at the heart of it Israel is fundamentally not the liberal state that the EU paints it as. It is a racist apartheid state, as much as South Africa was back in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The time for treating Israel as a normal state is over. Israel is a cancer in the Middle East. It is there to confront and humiliate...
- Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: Do you believe in apartheid in South Africa?
- Other Questions: Middle East Peace Process (13 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: All of it is occupied.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Arms Trade (13 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: 45. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the petition signed by more than 22,000 persons highlighting the arms trade with the state of Israel presented to An Taoiseach by members of an organisation (details supplied) on 4 October 2017. [51490/17]
- Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: A Cheann Comhairle, along with my colleagues I wish you and the staff a happy Christmas. Before I came into the Chamber I was trying to think of a saying to talk about the ongoing housing crisis. One thing went through my head; I do not know who wrote it.
- Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: The definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Over the past two years, the issue of the housing crisis has dominated these benches. The statistics say everything. In 2014, 880 children were homeless in the State while by 2017, that number had increased to 3,100. Obviously, something is dramatically wrong with the current...
- Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: That is a political statement.
- Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: Get the violins out.
- Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: So do I. There are more than 3,000 children in Ireland who are homeless at this moment and Deputy Bailey is playing a violin.
- Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: I said build more social housing.
- Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: Come on, of course it is an ideology. That is why there is a crisis for God's sake.
- Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: Can the Deputy not understand there is a crisis out there because of ideology? The Government just does not understand it.
- Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: Will the Deputy please stop. Will she just stop.
- Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: Will the Ceann Comhairle please tell the Deputy to stop?
- Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)
Gino Kenny: She would give an Anadin a headache.