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Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: Where? Which country is that?

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: The black market will probably continue, even if there is a regulated market.

Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: There is a black market still for alcohol and tobacco, even though they are regulated and legal. There will always be a black market for these drugs, but as long as the State completely shuns its responsibility around regulation, we will have this conversation in ten years' time and people will die. It is as simple as that. This is the question we have to ask ourselves.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: Good morning, everybody. I have one question, as the others have been answered. If the legislation were passed tomorrow, what would that look like for the service providers and the individual's carers? The majority of the time they would be in individual's houses. How would that be regulated by HIQA? Our interpretation of a HIQA inspection is that it goes to the premises. It can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill 2024 (19 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: Would there be a change in the qualification of the home care worker in that care environment if this legislation were passed?

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion. We can never speak enough about care work and carers in this country. We can all agree that, in a very crude form, carers save the State hundreds of millions of euro per year. We cannot put a price on the care work they do for loved ones and friends. The discrepancies in care pointed out by Family Carers Ireland are quite shocking. The...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: 38. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase childcare places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26082/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: 39. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will establish a publicly owned childcare service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26083/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (18 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: 56. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of asylum seekers who have not been provided with accommodation by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26080/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: 60. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will abolish childcare fees in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26084/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (18 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: 349. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of medical card holders under review at any one time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26009/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: Today is the first day of the special Joint Committee on Drugs Use. Paul Reid attended the meeting and I was present. The recommendations from the citizens' assembly are about saving lives, but an article on the front page of yesterday's Irish Examiner stated that the European drugs agency's report found that Ireland has the highest rate of drug deaths in Europe. Shockingly, Ireland has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I had my head in my hands there because the level of despair about the lack of progress on this issue is palpable. Those who have been campaigning on this issue have been frustrated, to say the least. Since the legislation was introduced in 2019 and the medical cannabis access programme, MCAP, was set up, only 50 people have received access to the programme. It is too restrictive. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: -----and some people have to go to the black market, which is bizarre. Some people have to do without. That is just not acceptable when we have a programme that is up and running, but is largely stagnant in getting people access to these particular products.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I think the Minister, personally, is a good supporter of this issue and that he wants to see progress. Who will be on that working group? Is there a timeline for when it will finish its work? In the past, we have seen groups being set up, and it takes forever for them to come back with recommendations. The HRB report does recommend that the programme needs to expand. If it does not, I do...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: -----and that would be a huge shame. Whatever your doubts about medical cannabis may be, it can be a hugely beneficial medical intervention for some people and particularly for some conditions, although not all. Some people will use it for all conditions and that is their business, but there is really good evidence to show that we should expand this programme. If it does not expand, I do...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: 11. To ask the Minister for Health if the review planned by his Department on the medical cannabis access programme has begun; if so, when he expects it to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25788/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: My question is about the ongoing review of the medical cannabis access programme. As the Minister knows, the Health Research Board did a very extensive review which was published in January. It recommended a number of progressive changes to the medical cannabis access programme, which at the moment is stagnant in terms of patients who can access medical cannabis treatment. I would like to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank the Minister. In certain areas, there are pressures on staff. Probably one good example is public health nurses in CHO 7. In CHO 7 in Clondalkin and Lucan, there are no public health nurses whatsoever. This is very worrying. I got a response to a parliamentary question on why public health nurses could not be recruited and the reason was that new public health nurses just could...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Overcrowding (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I accept that there has been progress in this regard. However, especially at bank holiday weekends, there seems to be a spike in the number of people who cannot get a hospital bed. The figure of 404 or whatever the actual figure is, is too many. We have the situation of hospital beds in the Irish public health system, which is a legacy issue. We all agree there needs to be more bed...