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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (15 Jan 2019)

Gino Kenny: I am slightly disappointed that the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, is not here to answer the questions I have been trying to raise in the Dáil for at least a year. Two years ago the Health Products Regulatory Authority, HPRA, produced a report entitled Cannabis for Medical Use - A Scientific Review. I argue that the review was fast-tracked due to Vera Twomey's fight for access...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (15 Jan 2019)

Gino Kenny: 604. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the distress the parents of children with SMA are experiencing due to the delay in making the drug Spinraza available (details supplied); the steps he will take to ensure that this matter is resolved at the drugs meeting in January 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54321/18]

Promoting Cycling: Motion [Private Members] (19 Dec 2018)

Gino Kenny: I will speak as a cyclist rather than as a Deputy. I am an avid cyclist and cycle to Leinster House every day from Clondalkin. I have cycled all my life and have never had a car. As I cycle everywhere, I know what the people in the Visitors Gallery think. Deputy Troy's motion is a good one and largely there is nothing with which to disagree. I am trying to be as positive as possible on...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Dec 2018)

Gino Kenny: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on orphan drugs. There debate on the issue has been ongoing since I was elected to the Dáil in February 2016. The Bill will go some way to providing equity for those who live with rare conditions in Ireland. The campaign by those affected by cystic fibrosis for access to Orkambi probably brought this issue to the fore. Since then, parents and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (18 Dec 2018)

Gino Kenny: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the emergency funding for repair work at a centre (details supplied); the reason his Department has not replied to the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board report that was submitted in October 2018; when funding will be approved and provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52724/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (18 Dec 2018)

Gino Kenny: 240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the lack of special needs units in schools in the Lucan area; his plans to address this shortage in view of the number of families with children with special needs in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53289/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (18 Dec 2018)

Gino Kenny: 405. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fee of €2,000 that patients who want to determine if they are suitable for the cancer treatment drug pembrolizumab are charged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53073/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2018)

Gino Kenny: Yesterday, Noreen O'Neill returned from Barcelona having filled a prescription for medical cannabis for her son Michael but the medication was taken from her by customs officials in Dublin Airport. Unfortunately, Noreen is not the first and will not be the last parent to go through this. On a weekly basis, parents are travelling to other jurisdictions in order to access healthcare for their...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Dec 2018)

Gino Kenny: There are hundreds of families-----

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Gino Kenny: I am sharing time with Deputy Coppinger. It was very revealing how, in the debate and at Leader's Questions earlier, the conflict of interest facing landlords in the Dáil exercised the establishment parties so much. Why is that? It is because it exposes not only the naked personal interest, but the class interest, which lies behind the Government's policies on the housing crisis,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Military Aircraft Landings (12 Dec 2018)

Gino Kenny: 14. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the recently released figures which show that there has already been an increase in applications to allow civil flights carrying weapons to land in Irish airports; his further views on the impact on Ireland’s neutrality; his views on the need for more transparency regarding the items being taken through Shannon...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (11 Dec 2018)

Gino Kenny: 106. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the plight of a person (details supplied); the steps he has taken to investigate and assist in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51710/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Dec 2018)

Gino Kenny: 191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details regarding the lease of a school (details supplied) by his Department from a trust; the reason for the decision not to renew the current lease held by a scout group; his plans to rent the building out at market rent in 2019; if there are stipulations in the lease that the building should only be used for community purposes; the way...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (5 Dec 2018)

Gino Kenny: 131. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the crisis level of opioid addiction and death by overdose in the United States of America according to data from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (details supplied); if his attention has been further drawn to its increasing misuse here; if a specific public health campaign on management of the use and misuse...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (29 Nov 2018)

Gino Kenny: 147. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure that the national maternity hospital will be taken into public ownership as a condition of public funding; the further steps he will take to ensure that the €350 million earmarked for the new build will be conditional on the change of ownership and will be governed by a new secular charter; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2018)

Gino Kenny: I want to raise an issue which I have brought up countless times and will continue to raise in this House until there is a satisfactory resolution. That is the issue of the lack of access to medicinal cannabis. The Taoiseach says there is a supply issue. We and other Deputies have a contrary view, which is that the Health Products Regulatory Authority, HPRA, is blocking the legislation on...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2018)

Gino Kenny: Two years. It is not an issue with the supplier.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2018)

Gino Kenny: It is not misinformation.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2018)

Gino Kenny: The Taoiseach is a disgrace.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2018)

Gino Kenny: The Taoiseach is a disgrace.