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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: Where would the witnesses like to see Sláintecare in five years, given that it is a ten-year plan?

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: If one takes away all of the headlines over the past number of days, because an immense amount of money has been thrown at the economy due to Covid-19, one sector that this pandemic has had a disproportionate effect on are services such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and psychology. Of these services, most people were waiting for 12 months or more prior...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Legislative Measures (15 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: 13. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment his plans to introduce legislation to allow for a mechanism for workers to be prioritised as creditors in the event of a liquidation in the future; if legislation that stops workers seeking redundancy in certain circumstances will be ended or extended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30568/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Industrial Disputes (15 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: 62. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he has discussed a dispute (details supplied) with the Minister for Finance; if so, if he has discussed the proposal that the State and the Revenue Commissioners stand aside as creditors to allow the liquidators prioritise former workers in order to achieve a resolution of the dispute; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: 71. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will respond positively to calls from nurses and other healthcare professionals to reinsert the requirement that infectious diseases, including Covid-19, are reported by employers to the Health and Safety Authority as infectious diseases in the workplace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23678/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in Acute and Community Care Settings: Discussion (21 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: I have two sets of questions. I thank everybody for their contributions. My first question is for Ms Clyne and it concerns non-EU doctors. They now make up 53% of all doctors and more than one third of doctors in the health service are trained abroad. Those doctors are highly trained and highly motivated, but there seems to be a glass ceiling for them regarding career paths and achieving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in Acute and Community Care Settings: Discussion (21 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: I would like Ms Ní Sheaghdha to comment on student nurses. They are working as de factocare assistants. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic they are not allowed to take second jobs, which presents a huge financial burden. How does Ms Ní Sheaghdha feel about the exploitation of student nurses in the health system at this time? My second question concerns infection rates among healthcare...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: I am sharing time with Deputies Bríd Smith, Boyd Barrett and Barry. We are at the beginning of another lockdown, the second. The vast majority of people have adhered to the guidelines. They have made enormous sacrifices of their liberty with financial, family and health implications and they will continue to make them. In some ways a second lockdown was almost flagged. If we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Contact Tracing: HSE (28 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: I thank all the speakers for their contributions. I have a number of questions. The second has largely been answered. The first is on testing and tracing in schools. Obviously, the imperative over the past couple of months has been to keep schools open for everybody involved. In the State's primary and post-primary schools, there are 939,000 pupils and 66,000 staff, including teachers....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Contact Tracing: HSE (28 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: Will the witness quantify from that number of staff and pupils how many have tested positive, particularly since September?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Contact Tracing: HSE (28 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: Deputy Shortall touched on this but there was a really good article in The Irish Timestoday by Dr. David Joyce and Professor Eilish McAuliffe. They wrote about the SQ80, which I had never heard of before. It describes 80% end-to-end turnaround from symptom development to testing being carried out and contact tracing being completed. They argue that testing and tracing can be put right in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Promotion (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: 88. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the women’s health task force that was established over a year ago; the actions taken or achieved in the intervening period; the plans in the area of women’s health over the next three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33543/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Promotion (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: The women's health task force was established in September last year. What actions has it taken and will it take over the next three years?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Promotion (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: The women's health task force is very welcome because in the past healthcare has been very patriarchal. It has let down women many times and women's healthcare in Ireland must be addressed. It is ironic that the task force was established because it was recommended in the scoping inquiry on the cervical screening programme after women had been completely let down. That should be remembered...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Promotion (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: One of the task force's mantras is that it will do radical listening on women's health. That is welcome. Women should be at the heart of women's health and they should be listened to, where not doing so was a problem in the past. Covid-19 has had a huge effect on everyone, regardless of gender, but I raise its impact on women's mental health. Covid has done a huge amount of social,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Education (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: 89. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the position of student nurses in the health service; if they have been offered healthcare assistants' contracts and work; if while on placement they will be offered similar payments as in March 2020; the supports that will be in place on an ongoing basis for student nurses serving in the public service given the risks of Covid-19...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Education (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: The position of student nurses in our health service is very important. There is a lot of exploitation where student nurses work on the front line. They feel they are being exploited and are not being recognised for their work.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Education (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: Two weeks ago, representatives from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, were before the Joint Committee on Health. The INMO's submission was extraordinary. It said that 3,400 students are on placements in Irish hospitals. Covid means they are in a vulnerable position. The failure by the HSE "to remunerate them amounts to exploitation". That is awful. The statement also...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Education (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: The world we used to live in prior to Covid-19 seems like a very different world from the one we are living in now. In former times, many student nurses could take up other jobs in nursing homes and so on, but they can no longer do so for all sorts of reasons. Financially, this has left them out of pocket. Living on an allowance of €50 a week, with the responsibility that is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: 144. To ask the Minister for Health the details of his negotiations with the private hospital sector to ensure increased capacity as the country enters the second wave of Covid-19; the cost per bed of an agreement by ICU and acute bed capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33541/20]