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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: 68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the new national housing strategy for disabled people will be published; if the strategy will move beyond the single strategy of decongregation and include the provision of supported living with targets and actual numbers in order that it can be monitored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55041/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (11 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: 362. To ask the Minister for Health when the Winter Plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55300/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (11 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: 363. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions which will be implemented in the Winter Plan in the areas of managing Covid-19 cases in intensive care units, the flu, elective surgeries and non-elective surgeries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55301/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (11 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: 364. To ask the Minister for Health the impact that the most recent spike in Covid-19 cases is having on the public health system; the measures to be taken in the Winter Plan and beyond to deal with this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55302/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: I thank Mr. Green and Professor McCormack. Their statement was very honest and candid. I read it last night before going to bed and was struck by the honesty in it. We read a lot of statements from healthcare professionals appearing before the committee in regard to our health system, but I was particularly struck by our guests' testimony, honesty and candour in respect of this most...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: Mr. Green has answered my second question, but I have one further brief question. What can we say to somebody with a child who has been waiting for years for an operation? There is capacity outside the State for treatment abroad. Obviously, it is a very complicated procedure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion (11 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: Are some children going abroad for operations?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: I want to raise an issue that I and other Deputies have raised countless times, namely access to medicinal cannabis. Many families and campaigners would have been joyous during the summer when the medicinal cannabis programme was to commence. Sadly I learned in a parliamentary question response today that not one patient has been given access to the programme thus far. That is a huge...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (9 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend the bike to work scheme to those who are self-employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54405/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (9 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: 246. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will intervene in the timing of the branch closures by a bank (details supplied) by replicating the actions of the UK financial sector regulator which will mean the pausing of any closures during the current pandemic; his views on the fact that persons will be greatly impacted by the withdrawal of banking services in their locality at a most...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (9 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: 628. To ask the Minister for Health the status of and position regarding the primary care centre proposed for the Collinstown site in north Clondalkin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54517/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: This matter is not in the Minister's area but it is important to raise it in the House. Last month was breast cancer awareness month. Two weeks ago, this House heard statements on breast cancer and its prevalence. Screening was one of the main issues to emerge from the debate. At the moment, screening for women is provided at age 50 and beyond. There is growing international evidence...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (4 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: 220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of any specific legislative amendment introduced to allow applications for driving licences by asylum seekers. [48556/21]

Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: I express our gratitude to those in the nursing profession and healthcare workers who kept us all safe in this terrible time. Those in the nursing profession, not only in Ireland but across the world, have never been as challenged. They lost colleagues in a battle to protect all of us. Over the past 17 to 18 months, many things have changed, some for the good and some for the bad. We have...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (2 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: 446. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the Israeli Ministry of Defence designating six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist organisations; his plans to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53062/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (2 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: 957. To ask the Minister for Health if surrogacy will be included in the proposed assisted human reproduction Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52672/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (2 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: 958. To ask the Minister for Health when legislation recognising international surrogacy alongside retrospective declaration of parentage will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52673/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: 952. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been prescribed an approved MCAP medical cannabis product since the commencement of the MCAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52639/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (2 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: 959. To ask the Minister for Health if he has consulted with or has plans to meet and invite input into the draft legislation from Irish families through surrogacy; his views on the fact that these families are dealing with the daily implications of the legal limbo they are living through in the absence of any legislation and are best placed to help inform legislation; and if he will make a...

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Department of Health (2 Nov 2021)

Gino Kenny: Most of the questions have been asked so I do not want to be repetitive. Senator Hoey mentioned the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. That passed through the Oireachtas in 2015, six years ago, and it has not been implemented. What is the knock-on effect of that? If it was implemented, what effect would it have on this legislation? This might have been answered but I would...