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Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: If the terminology was to be replaced, how would Dr. McAuley word it?

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: A second clarification is in regard to the intermediate or voluntary persons. I will paraphrase the contents of this paragraph. It states that the idea that admission of a child under 16 on the basis of parental consent constitutes a voluntary admission appears to the Ombudsman to be fundamentally flawed. Why would that be fundamentally flawed?

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: What happens in the case of a child under the age of 16 with, say, an acute eating disorder, who, without medical treatment in a medical situation, will die because of a lack of food and so forth? What happens if the child says he or she does not want to go to a unit but the parents want their child to go to the unit and the doctor caring for the child says the child needs to go? What...

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: I do not know if those circumstances are rare but in such circumstances, the child can be involuntarily detained in his or her best interests.

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: The child could say and has the capacity to say that he or she does not want to seek treatment. Obviously, the best interests of the child, medically and legally, would then be for him or her to be involuntarily detained to seek treatment. It is quite a complex issue. I have a final question on children aged between 16 and 18 years. Assisted capacity essentially means a person of an age...

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: It does. I have a final, supplementary question on that, especially around eating disorders. Again, I am not sure if Dr. Muldoon can answer this. I am sure this has happened to adults but in a situation where a child is involuntarily detained and a situation arises where the child completely refuses to eat, what happens in those circumstances?

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: Okay. I thank Dr. Muldoon. We have just been joined by Senator Dolan. Does she want to contribute now or to have a few minutes before doing so?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: I again emphasise the amount of public money that has been invested by governments in private companies to research this vaccine. It runs into tens of billions at this stage. At the crux of this argument, because we can talk about and almost intellectualise why companies have to have property rights to what they create, we are talking about an emergency that the world has not seen for the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: I wish to start with very sombre figures. Our fellow human beings are behind the figures. As of today, Covid-19 has claimed 5.5 million people worldwide. It is an incredible statistic. Nearer to home, 150,000 people in Britain have died of Covid-19. On our island, 10,000 people have died, thus far, as a result of the pandemic. It has taken a terrible toll on those people, their families...

Gender-based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: We will be supporting the Sinn Féin motion. I want to send my solidarity to the Murphy family at this terrible time. They probably cannot comprehend that Ashling will no longer be in their presence. None of us this week should have known about Ashling Murphy. In the past week, her life brought every village and town together like never before in a spontaneous call of solidarity in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: I thank the Minister of State and the other witnesses for attending. I want to cut to the chase. The elephant in the room is whether the current drugs policy in Ireland is working. I would say it is not and will continue not to work in relation to the prevalence of drugs in our society. Obviously, drug prevalence has huge effects on the community. We have seen that the criminal justice...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: I do not wish to focus on one particular drug, namely, cannabis. There are far worse drugs in society than cannabis. There are drugs that will kill people and obliterate communities. That is factual. Some of the responses are kind of hysterical in terms of how people make observations regarding cannabis use in particular. Broadly speaking, the ongoing battle against drug crime and drug...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: The Minister of State is asking the wrong questions, unfortunately.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: 820. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements for the 2022 junior cycle exams; her views on the significant difficulties experienced by this cohort who have yet to have an uninterrupted school year since their entry into secondary education as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic; if there will be accommodations in view of this situation; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: 828. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new build for a school (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the fact that students are being deprived of the level of subject choices provided in other secondary schools due to the fact that the facilities are not available to deliver a full range of subjects; when the new building will be fully functional...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Death Certificates (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: 1047. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there have been changes to the way a person registers the death of a family member such as changes in an extension of the three month deadline or changes with walk-in offices if there must be an appointment during Covid-19 restrictions. [1916/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: 1333. To ask the Minister for Health if he will conduct a review of service and staffing levels across the health service and ensure that extra permanent posts are sanctioned to ensure that the service can increase its capacity on a permanent basis to deal with non-Covid-19 care and the almost one million persons on waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2628/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: 1334. To ask the Minister for Health if he will conduct a review of service and staffing levels across the mental health service and ensure that extra services and extra permanent posts are sanctioned to ensure that the mental health service can increase its capacity on a permanent basis to deal with the mental health crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2629/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: 1415. To ask the Minister for Health if thighplasty is available as a treatment post weight loss via the HSE public system. [63167/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Living Wage (19 Jan 2022)

Gino Kenny: 1505. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many healthcare and social care workers are slipping into poverty as a result of low wages; his views on the contribution that these workers, many of whom are on the frontline have made during the Covid-19 pandemic; the steps that will be taken to address issue of low pay for workers in these sectors; the...