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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (27 May 2021)

Gino Kenny: The most important people in this debate are the people who find themselves in direct provision. People have exited direct provision and played a huge part at community and national level, having worked and raised families here. They are a great addition to their communities. There is a cohort of over 7,000 people still in direct provision, some of them for many years and in pretty bad...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 May 2021)

Gino Kenny: Today, thousands of taxi drivers are assembling in Dublin city. Over the past 15 months, their industry and livelihoods have essentially been destroyed. This industry has suffered hugely in that period. Taxi drivers are calling on the Government for extra supports for their industry and their livelihoods, and also for a moratorium on new leases in respect of taxi plates. They met the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Jun 2021)

Gino Kenny: 402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of and the time schedule planned for the completion of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin. [29295/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2021)

Gino Kenny: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the EU and international division of his Department. [26514/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Inquiries (3 Jun 2021)

Gino Kenny: 116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will examine calls for an independent public inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied); if she will examine legal opinions on the way this may operate in parallel with any Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, investigation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30219/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Inquiries (3 Jun 2021)

Gino Kenny: My question refers to the ongoing GSOC investigation into the death of George Nkencho. Will the Minister examine the possibility of a public inquiry into his death?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Inquiries (3 Jun 2021)

Gino Kenny: I thank the Minister for her statement. I appreciate that she cannot give a positive or conclusive answer about the ongoing GSOC investigation but the family have called for a public inquiry into the death of their son. The Minister will acknowledge that some of the vitriol and toxic messaging about George's death and the incidents around it, particularly on social media, has been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Inquiries (3 Jun 2021)

Gino Kenny: I welcome that. To give an overview of the history of GSOC, many people have found the GSOC model and its findings to be unsatisfactory because it is essentially the police investigating the police in this circumstance and in other situations where lethal force was used by the police. There must be a public inquiry into this matter and there has to be accountability and transparency, not...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jun 2021)

Gino Kenny: This segment is about promised legislation. What I will ask the Tánaiste today was promised and was legislated for but it was never implemented. The Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act dates back to December 2015. This was welcome legislation that replaced antiquated laws around the wards of court. Incredibly, after five and a half years, it has not been implemented. Things...

Mental Health During and Post Covid-19: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Gino Kenny: I want to focus on children and young people in the context of the public health emergency we have gone through. It has had a terrible effect on that cohort. This week's report from the Irish Youth Foundation, Generation Pandemic, paints quite a stark picture of disadvantaged children and the pandemic. One aspect of the report relates to children and young people who have fallen out of the...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta) 2020: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jun 2021)

Gino Kenny: If the Minister of State wants to see what is wrong with the housing policies of successive Governments, he need only look at the recent media reports of vulture funds, cuckoo funds, financial institutions or whatever one wants to call them buying up tracts of housing. They come to Ireland for one purpose only, and that is to make profits at the expense of first-time buyers, renters and the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Agreements (3 Jun 2021)

Gino Kenny: 105. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will undertake a full review of the possible impact on climate action and the environment as a result of Ireland accepting the CETA deal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1489/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Human Rights and Mental Health: Discussion (25 May 2021)

Gino Kenny: I thank the witnesses. I have a number of questions. Most of us will agree that some of the legislation enacted was necessary while some is extremely draconian. In normal times it would not have been enacted, but we live in extraordinary times. Sometimes extraordinary measures are needed. The question is whether the extraordinary powers the Government has should continue. The Bill...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Human Rights and Mental Health: Discussion (25 May 2021)

Gino Kenny: Surely there is a contradiction in that most of the economy will have reopened in the next couple of months while at the same time we will have the juxtaposition of certain civil liberties being completely curtailed. It is quite concerning. The emergency powers could continue indefinitely. I refer to the international experience of other governments that have installed emergency powers....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Rare Diseases: Discussion (26 May 2021)

Gino Kenny: I thank everybody for their statements. It is a fascinating debate, which was prevalent in the previous Dáil with regard to access to orphan drugs, particularly scenarios where families were campaigning to get access to these transformative medications. Other Deputies and I got to know organisations, particularly those families campaigning for the drug Kuvan to treat...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Cancer Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Gino Kenny: I thank all of our guests. They paint a very stark picture with regard to the ongoing public health emergency. Another emergency relating to another kind of virus is the cyberattack. The health service needed that like a hole in the head. It has caused a great deal of disruption in every sphere of the service. It is very concerning. I have a number of questions. My first question is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Cancer Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Gino Kenny: My second question is directed at Ms Power. It concerns breast cancer screening, which is not available to the under 50s. This was new to me. A very good friend of mine under the age of 50 had breast cancer. In the meantime, we put forward a motion in the Dáil relating to breast cancer screening for the under 50s. It is stark. There are reasons it does not happen but I will give...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jun 2021)

Gino Kenny: I want to start on a very positive note on the vaccine roll-out. The uptake of the vaccine has been very good and logistically it has gone very well also. There will be kinks and vulnerabilities in its implementation. One of the vulnerabilities is the cohort of those aged over 60. A cohort of nearly 450,000 is in that bracket. It seems counter-intuitive that those people have been left...

Impact of Covid-19 on People with Disabilities within the Education and Health Sectors: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Gino Kenny: We have had debate on disability services and the knock-on effect of the pandemic on them many times in the past 17 or 18 months. It has been a grim 18 months for society as a whole but, in other ways, it has been enlightening to see people pulling together in a time of need. I am proud of this country's spirit. We are in a different place now to where we were in January or the previous...