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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (9 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: 321. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many persons are experiencing anxiety and stress while waiting for cancer screening services to resume; if a date will be committed to for their earliest resumption; if a guarantee will be given that extra resources will be deployed to ensure that waiting lists for the services are cleared as quickly as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: 364. To ask the Minister for Health if the possibility will be explored of allowing families to visit their loved ones that are end-of-life in hospices but that are not actively dying (details supplied); if a range of options that would allow same including the wearing of appropriate PPE and or outdoor visits with social distancing will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: My second question is on the screening programme, particularly BreastCheck. I know the Minister spoke about this today. I have been contacted by a number of women in Dublin Mid-West about the length of time it takes to get an appointment which is not acceptable, either post-Covid or pre-Covid. There is no logic in women having to wait so long. We now need to look at the long term, the...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: I have questions for the Minister. Before speaking about them I want to pay tribute to and remember Melanie Hill Rutherford, who sat in the Gallery three and a half years ago to observe the passing of legislation on medical cannabis. Unfortunately, she passed away two weeks ago. She was a great advocate for medical cannabis and used it for her pain. If she was still here, she would ask...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: Will it begin at the end of June or the start or July?

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: I have another question about children in disadvantaged areas. Will there be provision for that cohort of students, especially over the summer period? As we said last week, many students have not been in school since 13 March. It is especially acute around disadvantage. Some students will simply drop out. Significant resources will have to be put towards those students. What are the...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: The Minister and I have spoken about the issue of July provision and special needs education weekly. I do not know whether the Minister saw the report on the RTÉ news on Tuesday. It was heartbreaking to see those two families in that situation. It was terrible to see the stress and anxiety parents with children with complicated needs are going through. They have no outlet or routine....

Covid-19 (Foreign Affairs and Trade): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: I will be sharing my time with Deputy Paul Murphy. I and my party express sorrow over George Floyd's death and our solidarity with his family in the United States. Nobody had heard of George Floyd until a number of days ago. His name is now attached to brutality of racism in the United States. We also send our solidarity to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, which is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (3 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will include teacher-led representation in addition to full involvement in the Covid-19 working group for the English language education sector; his views on whether it is vital that every stakeholder including teachers, students and unions is given a place on the working group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8626/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services (3 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: 447. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to lift the policy ban on enterprise support for the hemp industry in view of a European Court of Justice ruling (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8799/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Services (3 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: 448. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department has ever consulted with the hemp stakeholder body; her plans to consult with it following the recent European Court of Justice ruling (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8800/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (3 Jun 2020)

Gino Kenny: 528. To ask the Minister for Health the reason epidiolex that is a cannabis-based medicine for the treatment of epilepsy and been approved by the EMA and FDA, has not be approved for reimbursement by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8389/20]

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Gino Kenny: They are.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Gino Kenny: The Minister knows that as well as I do.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Gino Kenny: It is socially priceless.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Gino Kenny: It is true.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Gino Kenny: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. There has been a clamour in certain sectors of society that the pandemic unemployment payment should be either immediately cut or tapered off. Much dog-whistling comes with this. The narrative is that people on the Covid payment are living it up. That is very selective by the people who say it. It is usually from the very top and is socially...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Gino Kenny: The Taoiseach said that. He said it was free money.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Gino Kenny: Does the Minister know what the Taoiseach was getting at?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Gino Kenny: 640. To ask the Minister for Health when nursing homes can allow visitors once they have outdoor space while visitors would observe physical distancing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8279/20]