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

Gino Kenny: 153. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for further investment in testing tracing infrastructure and public health tracing teams in the coming weeks; the number of whole-time equivalents employed in this service since April 2020, by month, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33540/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: 155. To ask the Minister for Health the perinatal mental health services available for women; his plans to improve or add to these services in the near future; the perinatal mental health services available in each county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33544/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: 620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the person or body that sets the income threshold for persons to apply for local authority housing; and if the income threshold is set by his Department or the local authorities. [33145/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: 621. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the year the current income threshold for applicants on local authority housing list was set. [33146/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: 622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department allows local authorities to set their own income threshold for persons applying for local authority housing; if his Department monitors each authority; the way in which this is monitored; and the year each local authority set their current income threshold for the local authority housing list. [33147/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: 623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria and factors taken into consideration to determine the income threshold for persons applying for local authority housing. [33148/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: 624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if national average wage increases, minimum wage increases and increases in the private rental market are taken into consideration when setting income thresholds for persons applying for local authority housing. [33149/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: 625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department plans to increase the income threshold for persons applying for local authority housing. [33150/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: 918. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when her Department plans to centralise and gather information from INTREO offices to obtain a national picture regarding complaints made by persons applying for a social welfare payment or persons in receipt of a social welfare payment in order that her Department gathers all complaints to her Department relating to the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (3 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: 919. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department does not, to date, centrally gather information from INTREO offices relating to complaints made by persons applying for a social welfare payment or persons in receipt of a social welfare payment to her Department in order that her Department can monitor application processes, review processes,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: I think the Minister for coming in. I will concentrate on a number of issues. The first concerns the Minister's submission on budget 2021 and ICU beds. The Minister committed to 321 ICU beds by the end of next year. The Irish Hospital Consultants Association says we need 579 beds right now. There is a shortfall of nearly 260. Is the Minister confident he can deliver those beds? More...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: This is coming from a base whereby Ireland has the lowest number of ICU beds in the European Union. There is also the legacy of thousands of beds that were taken out of the health system over the past 25 years. We are coming from a low base and that has exposed the public health system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: Is the Minister confident that during his tenure, regardless of how long it will last, he can meet capacity with regard to ICU beds and the requirement of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, which has said that we need 579 beds? That is 260 more than we will have at the end of next year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: I refer to the Minister's submission on budget 2021. The additional personal assistant, PA, hours and additional funding for disability services are welcome. The decongregation of services for those who are living with a disability in a community setting is very welcome. On a different issue, I raised the medical cannabis access programme with the Minister a while ago. The response I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: The Chairman will give me a bit more time. I never go over time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: The previous Minister, Deputy Harris, gave the exact same answer last year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: He said the exact same thing one year ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: It was the exact same answer.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: I raise an issue with the Taoiseach that has been raised numerous times in the Chamber in relation to Debenhams workers who have been on strike for over 200 days. It is becoming one of the longest strikes in Irish labour history. My colleague, Deputy Boyd Barrett, raised this issue with the Taoiseach last week and the Taoiseach acknowledged that the talks in the WRC did not deliver a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Nov 2020)

Gino Kenny: I do not doubt the Taoiseach's bona fides in trying to settle this outstanding strike. The State should step aside as a creditor because otherwise the workers will not get the redundancy they are looking for. It is really important that something concrete happens. We can talk until the cows come home and have all of the platitudes we want but this is about will. It is like everything in...