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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: I thank the witnesses for their contributions in what is a very difficult time for everybody. My question is short but the answer may be long. What do Ms Magahy and Mr. Sullivan say to the charge that Sláintecare is largely aspirational, ambiguous on the issue of private healthcare, too technocratic and resistant to reform and that in the ten-year implementation programme universal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: Where would the witnesses like to see Sláintecare in five years, given that it is a ten-year plan?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (13 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: 191. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29569/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Maternity Leave (13 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: 371. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will commit to increasing maternity leave and benefit to nine weeks in acknowledgement of the difficult situation parents of new babies are in as a result of the public health emergency; the amount that current legislation permits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29865/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Oct 2020)

Gino Kenny: 537. To ask the Minister for Health if there is an appeals process for those who have been refused reimbursement by the HSE for the use of the breast cancer drug pertuzumab despite a consultant oncologist’s opinion that it would be beneficial to use as treatment in a particular case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30191/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (30 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: 154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria selection for the child maintenance review group. [27435/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: Next Thursday a very important debate will take place in this House when the Dying with Dignity Bill 2020 will be discussed. I understand there is a variety of views not only in political parties and this House but society as a whole on the subject. I call on the Minister to support a vote of conscience, not only in his party but across the Government parties. It is very important for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (24 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: 16. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the demands of representative groups of taxi drivers will be agreed to, namely to dissolve the taxi advisory committee and instead establish a national transport forum with strong representation from these representative groups, to extend the 10 year rule for replacing taxis to 12 years, to instigate an immediate moratorium on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: 34. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure that public transport is available to all those that need it during the Covid-19 crisis in view of the fact that most transport is running at 50% capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25891/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (24 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: 222. To ask the Minister for Health if some maternity hospitals have the facilities to carry out quick turnaround Covid-19 testing; if this facility can be extended to cover partners of pregnant persons in order that they can be present for scans and other maternity services and resume the much-needed support of their partners during hospital maternity visits and labour; and if he will make a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Resettlement Programme (23 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: I thank the Minister of State for taking this important issue. I raise the issue of the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos in Greece. As the Minister of State is aware, a fire two weeks ago destroyed the camp and people were left destitute. All their belongings were destroyed and thousands of people are now without any kind of shelter on the island. This is a humanitarian crisis...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Resettlement Programme (23 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: The EU's response regarding refugees fleeing from persecution in the last decade, particularly in recent years, has been shameful. It has allowed people to drown in the Mediterranean. That is a fact. It has also allowed this camp on Lesbos to fester. Pictures on BBC and RTÉ television of people living in the camp show them living in conditions worse than those for animals and the EU...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: 53. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when Irish Rail, Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann will resume full services in view of the pressures on existing services with reduced capacity due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15994/20]

Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: People Before Profit will support this Bill. I want to cut to the chase. There have been many debates on renters and housing in this Chamber. Renters are being ripped off in the State. A small cohort of landlords are doing extremely well out of this. They are doing so well that they have commodified the basic human right to shelter. Does the Minister know how that has happened? It has...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: I want to raise an issue that I have raised numerous times in the term of this Dáil and the last Dáil. It is the lack of progress around the medical cannabis access programme. I see the former Minister for Health in the Chamber. To say parents and patients are extremely frustrated is an understatement. The law was changed last year and many people had hope. Since then, there...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: Deputy Harris is across the Chamber.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: In the upcoming Brexit legislation, how will the Government deal with the Dublin regulation, formally known as the Dublin III Regulation? The reason I ask is that a gentleman, Lehlohonolo Kalele, who is a citizen of Soweto and who is at present studying occupational safety and health in UCD will be deported, as of Saturday, back to Britain. There are other individuals in the same position....

Dying with Dignity Bill 2020: First Stage (15 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision for assistance in achieving a dignified and peaceful end of life to qualifying persons and related matters. I am introducing the Dying with Dignity Bill 2020 on behalf of Solidarity-People Before Profit. I do not do this in jubilation but with determination that this very personal issue is discussed...

Dying with Dignity Bill 2020: First Stage (15 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (15 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: 95. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase capacity in hospitals permanently; his further plans to increase the current 45 ICU beds in view of the worrying recent increase in the number of Covid-19 infections and in anticipation of another wave of the virus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23677/20]