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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Mental Health Services (Resumed) (14 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: Why are they not regulated? Who runs those services?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Mental Health Services (Resumed) (14 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: My final question is for the HSE. I spoke in the previous session about the highs and lows of the public health emergency. The highs were the coming together of people and the solidarity and support they showed one another. One cannot buy the bonding that took place over the past four months. However, there were also huge lows for the many people who had to self-isolate and were unable to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Proposed Legislation (15 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: 26. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he expects to move legislation to ban oil and gas exploration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15995/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (15 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: 166. To ask the Minister for Health the availability of Covid-19 antibody tests, that is, post-infection blood tests, for persons going for private surgeries in private hospitals and for those who can pay amounts varying from €79 to €250; if he will consider providing this test free of charge in the first instance to persons who have been shielding and cocooning to enable them...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (16 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: I am sharing time with Deputy Boyd Barrett.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (16 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: I wish the new Minister well. We will get the niceties out of the way and then we will get political. I think we all agree that by comparison with March, the Irish classroom will look very different in September. The last five months have shown us the major fault lines in our public services in health, education etc.. I refer to the statistic that Ireland has one of the highest...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that disability service providers have not received extra funding to cover the costs of deep cleaning, sanitising and other associated Covid-19 hygiene protocols as they begin to resume their services for persons with disabilities; if extra funding will be provided in the interest of public health to organisations...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (16 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: 172. To ask the Minister for Health when the income threshold level for medical card eligibility is to be raised; the details of the new levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16380/20]

Early Years Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: I welcome the motion. I commend Deputy Funchion on her consistency on this issue. It is a very good, structured motion. I welcome some elements of the Minister's statement, especially with regard to meeting representatives of SIPTU, and good luck with that. I put it to the Minister that it is not an exaggeration to say that the provision of childcare is extremely fragmented in Ireland, if...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Employment Rights (21 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: 72. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 29 of 14 July 2020, the way in which migrant workers who do not hold valid permits can access the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, in view of a recent court case which found the definition of civil proceedings in one particular case excluded the findings of the WRC and Labour Court; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (21 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: 565. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide clarity in relation to the process of stamp 4 renewal for persons living outside of Dublin in particular; if she will address the issue of access to locally-based immigration officers which is difficult and or sporadic as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the pressure this is placing on employees that...

Debenhams Ireland Redundancies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: I commend the Debenhams workers who have been on strike for more than 105 days through very difficult circumstances because of the public health emergency. Anybody who has visited the picket line would be inspired and amazed by their determination over 14 or 15 weeks. It has been a very difficult time but their solidarity and support for each other is inspiring for anybody who supports the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (23 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will re-examine the policy on co-living accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17625/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (23 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: 45. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the LDA will address the housing crisis; if representatives of NGOs or bodies that have campaigned on behalf of the homeless or on the housing crisis will be represented on the board of the LDA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17626/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (24 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. I congratulate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on her surprise win yesterday. We were all delighted.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (24 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: Well, it was a surprise for a few of us. I am sure the Minister was seriously alarmed by the HIQA report published on Tuesday. It gave a terrible insight into the challenges and the failures of nursing homes during the public health emergency. I understand from the media that the Covid committee will recommend a review of all deaths in nursing homes. I read the report this morning. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (28 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: 326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households that each local authority has removed from the housing list as a result of not responding to the housing needs assessment in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18006/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Commissioner (30 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: 172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the community and worker engagement process as set out for the midlands region, Bord na Móna workers and communities; the way in which the process is operating in view of Covid-19; his plans to advance community and worker engagement in respect of Bord na Móna and the just transition; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Commissioner (30 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: 173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether the community engagement aspect of just transition has been applied successfully in other jurisdictions; his plans to instigate some of the measures in the just transition plan for the midlands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20972/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Commissioner (30 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: 174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the work of the midlands regional transition team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20973/20]