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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (15 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: 612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a series of matters (details supplied) regarding visa applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23940/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (15 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: 707. To ask the Minister for Health when the medical cannabis access programme will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23551/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (15 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: 708. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the budgetary constraints stated by his Department as the reason for the delay in the roll-out of the medical cannabis access programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23552/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (15 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: 709. To ask the Minister for Health if a date has been established for the commencement of the medicinal access programme; the concerns and obstacles to the roll-out of the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23553/20]

Public Health, Well-being and National Drugs Strategy: Statements (10 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: I wish the Minister of State well and hope he will be progressive and bold in his job in the next years. The Government needs to be bold because this is like Groundhog Day. We are talking about things we talked about two or three years ago in this Chamber. People have been talking about this issue for decades. It is welcome that we are talking about a health-led approach rather than a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Process (10 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: 24. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the role her Department will play in overseeing new regulations being brought in by the Minister for Health that will be made into criminal offences under section 13 of the new Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Act 2018; if there will be a vote taken in Dáil Éireann prior to the regulations becoming law; and if...

Mental Health and Older People: Statements (9 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: I wish the Minister of State well in her new job. As a result of Covid, the past six months have affected the well-being of everybody but old people have suffered disproportionately. A total of 56% of all deaths have been in nursing homes and the vast majority of deaths in the State have been of older people. There was, and still is, a sense of fear with regard to how old people interact....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provision has been made for children returning to school that have parents and or siblings with serious and or a terminal illness that have been cocooning for the past six months and are at critical risk should children bring the Covid-19 virus home; the provisions that have been made in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the...

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: I doubt the Minister of State will disagree that the past six months have been extremely detrimental for children with special needs and their level of access to the services they need. The effects on children and their families are probably unquantifiable. Those effects are ongoing. The lack of routine and structure has been detrimental. The cessation of services and difficulty in...

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: I asked the Minister of State a question.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Review of the Reopening of Schools (Resumed) (2 Sep 2020)

Gino Kenny: I thank the witnesses for attending. Some of my questions have been answered so I will not go over them. The past six months have been surreal, to say the least. The task that the education sector has endured has been mammoth logistically and incredibly difficult for all concerned: pupils, teachers and anybody who works in the sector. It is a different environment from what it was. The...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)

Gino Kenny: I have a number of questions for Dr. Glynn on the reopening of schools. Over the next few weeks, almost 1 million people will return to some sort of educational setting. That is a huge logistical headache for everybody involved. My first question is on a comment made my Dr. Michael Ryan of the WHO, who said that school reopening should not become a political football. On purely medical...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)

Gino Kenny: My next question is on the rise of transmissions among children in recent weeks, which is obviously concerning. In that context, does that set off alarm bells regarding the settings to which young people will return?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)

Gino Kenny: I thank Dr. Glynn. My last question relates to other countries. As mentioned earlier, some schools in Germany, specifically in Berlin, had to close because of outbreaks. Teachers, pupils and parents want to be assured that if there is an outbreak here, as happened in certain countries in Europe - hopefully it will not happen here - we will have no hesitation in shutting schools down in...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)

Gino Kenny: My first question relates to what has happened in the past six months in nursing homes. There are five separate inquiries ongoing in that regard and the data make for extremely grim reading. There were 971 Covid-related deaths in nursing homes and 56% of all such deaths are associated with nursing homes clusters. Of the 5,608 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in nursing homes, only 422 patients...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)

Gino Kenny: Will the Minister commit to a public inquiry, during his tenure as Minister for Health, into what happened in nursing homes? All the evidence points to the need for such an inquiry into each one of the deaths that occurred and why there was such a catastrophe. Behind the statistics I gave are grandmothers, grandfathers, fathers and mothers. The data make for really grim reading and they...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)

Gino Kenny: The former Minister for Health said last March that there was no room for private healthcare during the pandemic. I was contacted by a person yesterday. To get a Covid test in the public health service, it would take this person 24 hours to get an appointment and 48 hours for results. That is three and a half days, I think. However, someone who pays €250 to the Beacon Consultants...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Commissioner (30 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: 172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the community and worker engagement process as set out for the midlands region, Bord na Móna workers and communities; the way in which the process is operating in view of Covid-19; his plans to advance community and worker engagement in respect of Bord na Móna and the just transition; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Commissioner (30 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: 173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether the community engagement aspect of just transition has been applied successfully in other jurisdictions; his plans to instigate some of the measures in the just transition plan for the midlands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20972/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Commissioner (30 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: 174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the work of the midlands regional transition team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20973/20]