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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: If the programme is not broadened in its conditions, I do not see it going anywhere for medical and commercial reasons. The Danish medical cannabis access programme has been open since 2018 and 2,500 patients have got medical cannabis products via prescription. Some of the conditions it is being prescribed for are not in the medical access programme here. One particular example of that is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: 82. To ask the Minister for Health if he acknowledges that the medical cannabis access programme, MCAP, is not fulfilling its potential given that only 12 persons have been registered on the MCAP, the limitations to date and the programme’s upcoming clinical review. [38141/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: My question relates to a report commissioned five years ago, namely, Cannabis for Medical Use - A Scientific Review, which was commissioned from the Health Products Regulatory Authority, HPRA. One of the main recommendations was an access programme. That was five years ago. The programme has been extremely restrictive and has omitted many people who could benefit from medical cannabis. I...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: I think the Minister will agree with me the policy of a ministerial licence was from the outset overly bureaucratic and very arduous for parents. Many parents had to fight tooth and nail to get access for their children. I have always found it strange that with the more than 40 people who have ministerial licence, there is no joined-up thinking. There is no research done or joined-up...

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: I am sharing time with Deputy Boyd Barrett. I see the Minister is leaving the Chamber.

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: I was about to let loose. I wonder whether the Minister has ever thought for one minute that the current housing policy and others that preceded it are and were wrong. I would like somebody on that side of the House to say, "You know what, I think we have got it wrong." I am not getting that sense and I do not think it will ever happen. To deal with the housing crisis, we must look at...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: Was Michael Collins in Fine Gael?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: 107. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an organisation (details supplied) is consulting its members on taking industrial action on overcrowding in the country’s emergency departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37646/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: 135. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland’s abortion laws have been described by members of the United Nations Human Rights Committee as inhumane and discriminatory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37648/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: 138. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recent call by an organisation (details supplied) for ventilation in hospitals to be examined to ensure the safety of nurses and midwives in their workplaces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37647/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Thalidomide Victims Compensation (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: 139. To ask the Minister for Health if he has met with thalidomide survivors; the steps that he will take in relation to the serious issues affecting them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37649/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: 967. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a recently published report from the Health Research Board, National Drug Treatment Reporting System: 2015-2021 Drug Treatment Data, showing rapidly increasing drug use in Ireland; and if he will consider a different legal approach based on decriminalisation. [35957/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Sanctions for the Possession of Certain Amounts of Drugs for Personal Use: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: I thank the witnesses for coming today. This is a very worthwhile debate. I want to go back to the future. That future is in the mid-1970s, 45 years ago and relates to the Misuse of Drugs Act. That is where we started. Obviously that law is still prevalent today. That law was introduced to do a number of things: to stop the proliferation of drugs and to give people criminal sanction for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Sanctions for the Possession of Certain Amounts of Drugs for Personal Use: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: What Professor Smyth is saying is that he is not open to regulation alone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Sanctions for the Possession of Certain Amounts of Drugs for Personal Use: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: Even though, as we have seen in Portugal, the hard evidence is that it saves lives. That is really what it comes down to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Sanctions for the Possession of Certain Amounts of Drugs for Personal Use: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: In Portugal, it is a fact. Thousands of people are alive today because of the system that was introduced in Portugal. It is a fact. Is Professor Smyth denying that fact?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Sanctions for the Possession of Certain Amounts of Drugs for Personal Use: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Sanctions for the Possession of Certain Amounts of Drugs for Personal Use: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: Is Professor Smyth not of the opinion that what has happened in Portugal has saved lives and has brought people out of the criminal justice system? This system works. Decriminalisation only goes so far. I would be of the opinion that cannabis, in particular, needs to be regulated. It needs to be legalised and regulated. People stigmatise and put out this claptrap all the time saying that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Sanctions for the Possession of Certain Amounts of Drugs for Personal Use: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: We need to go beyond that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Sanctions for the Possession of Certain Amounts of Drugs for Personal Use: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Gino Kenny: I am starting from 2001.