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Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. I raised the issue of Palestine with the Minister last week. Israel has vowed to annex the Jordan Valley, which makes up 30% of the occupied West Bank, this time next week. The EU has specifically stated that if Israel makes this move, it will be contrary to international law and decency. If this action takes place, what will the European Union do to...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (17 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: The Minister has accepted that we need changes in our public health service and the Covid-19 public health emergency has shown the cracks in our system, such as bed capacity and staffing shortages. The running down of our public health service over the past number of decades has been hugely detrimental to all citizens in this country. The new programme for Government states that it will...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (17 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: On countless occasions over the past four years I have raised the issue of the medical cannabis access programme. This time last year the Minister announced that the programme would be functional. That was underpinned for, I understand, the first time in medical history by a statutory instrument which allowed people to access medical cannabis legally. The Minister said he expected people...

Covid-19 (Brexit): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: That is a terrible response. The Minister of State is a member of the Government that has refused this legislation, which has been passed in the Seanad and the Dáil. She has an obligation to give me an answer to explain why this legislation is not going into the programme for Government. Fianna Fáil and the Green Party agreed the legislation.

Covid-19 (Brexit): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: The world is watching this country. Can we imagine if this country passed the legislation in question? It would give inspiration to all the people of Palestine and to the world against oppression and brutality. This country can do it as it did in 1986. Why can we not do it now? What is difference?

Covid-19 (Brexit): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: Will the Government publish the Attorney General's advice? Why can-----

Covid-19 (Brexit): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: Okay. Can the Minister of State overrule it?

Covid-19 (Brexit): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: Will it be in the programme for Government?

Covid-19 (Brexit): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: No.

Covid-19 (Brexit): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: I will not raise Brexit but the issue of illegal trade. Last week, I raised with the Tánaiste the Control of Economic Activities (Occupied Territories) Bill, which seeks to ban the importation of illegal goods from settlements in the occupied West Bank. His answer was very glib. He said he would not do so. He obviously has form on this. For the record, I think all Israeli goods...

Covid-19 (Brexit): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: It relates to trade.

Covid-19 (Brexit): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: There is.

Covid-19 (Brexit): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: I suggest that there is. In 1986, the Attorney General of this country gave a recommendation that the ban on the importation of South African apartheid fruit and goods was illegal. A year later Ireland was the first country to ban all apartheid goods from South Africa. The Minister of State can put the legislation in question into the programme for Government. The Government can also...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: No, it relates to the proposed liquefied natural gas, LNG, site at the Port of Cork.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: It is very ambiguous.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: It essentially indicates that the memorandum of understanding from the Port of Cork states that it still wants to import the fracked LNG. Is the Government against this or is it the Government's policy to have such a facility not only in Shannon but also the Port of Cork? This is from the Minister's Department.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: I would like the Minister to explain a reply my party member Deputy Bríd Smith got on the proposed liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminal at the Port of Cork. With regard to climate action, this represents a quite substantial shift. Many in this Chamber believed that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil were moving away from the concept of LNG terminals. Let me quote material from the talks...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: It is from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport.

July Education Programme: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: My next question is on the pupil-teacher ratio. I am not being parochial but to give an example, in Scoil Íde Catholic primary school in Clondalkin the number of pupils has changed slightly since last September, which means it will lose a teacher next September. The Minister can understand that in September schools will be under serious pressure because of the ongoing public health...

July Education Programme: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: I have two questions for the Minister. My first question is on the July provision. He has stated numerous times that the provision depends on teachers and SNAs making themselves available for a period. What is the uptake? I was contacted by a parent from Lucan who is in a very difficult situation. Her school cannot accommodate the July provision due to remedial works taking place and no...