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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Sep 2022)

Gino Kenny: 470. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase core funding to community drug projects by 10% in Budget 2023 in view of the fact that there has been no increase in core funding since 2013 despite the escalating demands on these projects; if he will consider the substantial increases in energy and fuel costs experienced by drug and alcohol taskforces and commit to this much-needed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (20 Sep 2022)

Gino Kenny: 517. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated monthly cost to the Exchequer of providing universal free antigen tests. [45628/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Sep 2022)

Gino Kenny: I will ask the same question. The pandemic recognition payment was broadly welcomed, but it is ludicrous that workers who do not work directly for the HSE have still not received their payments. The goodwill that greeted the bonus has largely diminished because of the delay. Workers want to know when they will get their payments.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: This winter we will see the apex of the cost-of-living crisis, particularly in energy prices. There have been 35 price hikes by energy companies in the past 12 months. The cumulative effect has been a 60% to 70% increase in electricity and gas prices. That is a fact. Another fact which the Minister will have to address is that since February this year, 20,000 people were refused fuel...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: 84. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to change the thresholds or to alter the qualifying criteria for the fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34961/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: My question centres on the fuel allowance thresholds and the qualifying criteria. This will be a very important issue in the coming months. I want the Minister's opinion on the thresholds by which people will qualify.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: I thank the Minister of State. We can all agree that the fuel allowance at the moment is targeted in a certain way to a certain number of social welfare recipients. I believe this needs to broaden out to much more than the cohort of people who currently receive it. If a person is on illness benefit he or she does not get it. A person on disability benefit does not get the fuel allowance....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: 129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the possibility of ceasing her Department's current policy of removing persons from the fuel allowance qualification if their income increases marginally especially given the current energy cost crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34962/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: The Business Postreported that there was a lack of oversight in regard to procurement of personal protective equipment, PPE, in 2020. The figure referenced in the article was €770 million. In the HSE response to a parliamentary question I tabled last year, the figure was €1 billion spent on PPE. We all understand that, at that time, PPE was very difficult to get and it was...

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: Landlords have never had it so good, to coin a phrase. Corporate landlords are having it really good. Corporate landlords were brought here after the crash by Fine Gael for one reason only, which was to make huge amounts of money. This is what they are doing. They own huge portfolios of apartments and houses throughout the State. In some cases they are getting paid by the State after...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: 331. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which the signature of a person can be provided in order to avail of social welfare supports in cases in which the person is unconscious and critically ill in hospital; the contingencies that are in place in these instances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38177/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Integrated Eye Care: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: I welcome all the witnesses. I have a number of brief questions as I am time-limited. I have to speak in the Chamber. Has a calculation been done on the number of people availing of the cross-border directive? That has slightly changed in the past 18 months because of Brexit. Do the doctors have a number at hand of people availing of this directive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Integrated Eye Care: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: Would it be common for people to come from the North to the South?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Integrated Eye Care: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: A lady came to my office a number of weeks ago in respect of this very issue. I do not deal with it very much in terms of constituency work, but she showed me a letter she received from the HSE which stated how long she would wait for cataract surgery. It is a routine operation. I could not believe what she showed me. The letter stated that she would be waiting up to five years for a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Integrated Eye Care: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: If somebody comes to my office or that of another Deputy, what would Professor Keegan say to him or her in a situation where it will take five years to get a routine appointment? What would he advise in that situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Integrated Eye Care: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: I thank Professor Keegan.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: 88. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he has taken to ensure that an organisation (details supplied) is granted the pay parity with their laboratory colleagues that they have been seeking for 21 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37645/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: We saw during Covid-19, which is ongoing, the importance of laboratory scientists. A number of months ago those same laboratory scientists had to go on strike in relation to pay parity. What steps is the Minister taking to resolve this issue?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: I welcome the fact a settlement may be possible in regard to the ongoing discussions. These laboratory scientists have waited for more than 20 years for pay parity. Some of their colleagues doing similar work have been paid about 8% more than them. They were very patient indeed. The strike was hugely popular, publicly. Obviously the laboratory scientists did not want to be on strike....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: Hopefully, this anomaly can be resolved. The workers have been waiting a considerable amount of time. Another issue the laboratory scientists have touched on relates to vacant posts in the profession. They said one in five posts are vacant. That is obviously worrying in the context of qualified staff such as those. Hopefully, those posts can be filled. The Minister cannot predict what...