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Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)

Gino Kenny: I am sharing time with Deputy Mick Barry. I have two questions. The vast majority of teachers and parents welcome the clarification on the leaving certificate. When the Minister spoke here two weeks ago, it was clear that it was not logistically possible to do the leaving certificate. The big issue for teachers is that they will now judge their own pupils for State exams. They want to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legal Costs (13 May 2020)

Gino Kenny: 254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the State is directly or indirectly funding legal costs, including senior counsel, in the recent past, or on an ongoing basis, associated with enforcing a religious ethos in a non-designated ETB school in Clonmel, County Tipperary, to the detriment of atheist, humanist, or secular members of the community; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (13 May 2020)

Gino Kenny: 743. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for additional staff will be committed for the opening of the new residential unit at a nursing home (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the distress and anxiety families are experiencing as a result of uncertainty regarding whether their loved ones will be accommodated in the new unit; if funding will be provided for the...

Covid 19 (Childcare): Statements (6 May 2020)

Gino Kenny: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. It seems like an eternity since, on 5 February, we saw the biggest national demonstration by childcare workers calling for a national investment in childcare. It seems like a different century almost, and it was three days before the general election. I was at it, like others in this Chamber, and it was an unprecedented demonstration. There must...

Covid-19 (Tourism): Statements (6 May 2020)

Gino Kenny: I wish to share time with Deputy Mick Barry.

Covid-19 (Tourism): Statements (6 May 2020)

Gino Kenny: Unfortunately, 2020 is shaping up to be an annus horribilisfor the tourism sector - there is no getting away from that - as a result of the pandemic. That is the case across the world. Many people in Ireland, regardless of whether they live in rural or urban areas, rely on seasonal work in the tourism sector. Some of those workers are shut out of all Covid-19 supplements and payments. My...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (Resumed) (23 Apr 2020)

Gino Kenny: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. My main question centres on the rescheduling of the leaving certificate. As we all understand, that position will be taken in early June, which is five weeks away. There is a huge amount of uncertainty and a lack of clarity on this issue and there is a huge amount of anxiety among all parties, including teachers, parents and students. The general trend...

Social Protection (Covid-19): Statements (2 Apr 2020)

Gino Kenny: It is nice to see you again, a Cheann Comhairle. I am sure there has been a sense of the surreal among people for the past four weeks. That also applies to the proceedings today and with regard to what is happening to people's well-being and health. In a matter of weeks, hundreds of thousands of people have lost their jobs, incomes and livelihoods. The sense of insecurity we are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (5 Mar 2020)

Gino Kenny: 504. To ask the Minister for Health the policy in relation to medicinal cannabis reimbursement as part of the medicinal cannabis access programme; if a guarantee will be provided that no family or person that is granted access under the programme will be expected to incur the substantial cost of using medicinal cannabis as a treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2594/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (5 Mar 2020)

Gino Kenny: 1189. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the income eligibility for social housing is restrictively low (details supplied); his plans to raise the eligibility threshold as a matter of priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2673/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (18 Dec 2019)

Gino Kenny: If it were not for Jigsaw, which provides a great service in Dublin and across the country, many people would not be here at this time. This decision has been a bad one from the outset. It cannot be overturned without Government intervention. I reiterate that 84% of Jigsaw's funding comes from the Government. The Government has a say. It must override Jigsaw's decision to pull out of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (18 Dec 2019)

Gino Kenny: Jigsaw's statement earlier in the week was very disappointing, to say the least. It would be an understatement to say that the matter has been handled very poorly by Jigsaw management since it arose. It is a question of maintaining mental health provision in north Clondalkin and the wider Dublin Mid-West. If the Jigsaw service in the area falls through, Dublin Mid-West, including...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Dec 2019)

Gino Kenny: In the new year, the first Irish patients will finally get access to medicinal cannabis products. This is to be welcomed. More than 40 people, however, still have to leave the country to collect their prescriptions. Reimbursement is not guaranteed and it would seem to be very arbitrary when it comes to the criteria. One such person, Ms Pamela Fowler, has given me permission to speak about...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Conditions (17 Dec 2019)

Gino Kenny: It is welcome that, under the women's health task force, endometriosis will be reviewed and so forth. I think, however, that most women looking at this debate tonight will ask why it has taken so long to address this issue. There is a paternal narrative in healthcare and over the past two or three years, in particular, we have seen women being let down completely, not only by the health...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Conditions (17 Dec 2019)

Gino Kenny: Yes.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Conditions (17 Dec 2019)

Gino Kenny: I commend the Endometriosis Association of Ireland, whose representative spoke in the audiovisual room last Tuesday. I thank Kathleen King, Aimee Brown, Sarah Moloney and Jean Sutton. Their testimonies enlightened me and many others at the presentation. One in ten women is diagnosed with endometriosis. That is nearly 135,000 women in Ireland. On average, it will take nine years to get...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (17 Dec 2019)

Gino Kenny: 275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that for non-EEA families, immigration permissions here are tied to one partner or spouse allowing only them to work while the other family members are economically dependent; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that this approach acts as a block to the mobility of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Smarter Transport (17 Dec 2019)

Gino Kenny: 594. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the capital expenditure of his Department from 1 January to 31 August 2019 under headings (details supplied). [52876/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2019)

Gino Kenny: I thank everybody for their insightful contributions, though they were also very depressing in some ways, in that 80% of Travellers are unemployed. There is obviously a reason for that. Systematic discrimination happens daily and that is extremely difficult for the Traveller community to take. As we have said each week, this has been internalised and can cause all sorts of difficulties...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2019)

Gino Kenny: How can such children avail of apprenticeships?