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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2018)

Gino Kenny: I thank Mr. Hughes for his presentation. This is probably the most damning document I have seen in the two years I have been in the Dáil. It is even worse when one sees it in black and white, word by word and statistic by statistic, because behind every statistic is a person who has been neglected and left behind by the State. It is damning beyond belief. I can only imagine the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2018)

Gino Kenny: Before the witnesses came in the Psychiatric Nurses Association, PNA, gave a presentation and we were all shocked, except Senator Devine who has worked in that field. It was beyond bleak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (1 Feb 2018)

Gino Kenny: All our hearts sank when the state of the mental health services was shown in black and white and staff morale. It was shocking. The narrative is that the neoliberal agenda has done terrible damage to the health service in Ireland and the front-line staff, like us, have to pick up the pieces. The witnesses say that the failure to provide adequate counselling and psychotherapeutic and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (1 Feb 2018)

Gino Kenny: 27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe to end pay inequality in all teaching grades and to deal with the crisis in the shortage of teachers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4843/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Feb 2018)

Gino Kenny: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to deal with the crisis facing persons at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8 in view of the fact that in September 2018 there will be no classroom facilities for special education teaching and just one junior infant class enrolled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4842/18]

Order of Business (30 Jan 2018)

Gino Kenny: This time last year the Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, commissioned a report, Cannabis for Medicinal Use - A Scientific Review. Not only has nothing happened in that time, the Government has stalled the Bill to legislate for medicinal use because of a money matter. The Taoiseach said yesterday that we exported our problems and imported our solutions but, at this moment, families...

Order of Business (30 Jan 2018)

Gino Kenny: The Taoiseach has to show leadership on this.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Gino Kenny: Ireland is changing. When I was growing up, the Catholic Church was the predominant institution. For young people today, that institution is greatly weakened. In 1983, the Catholic Church was a very powerful institution. Ireland is a very different place from what it was in 1983. Social issues that dominated the country for so long, such as divorce and gay marriage, have become commonly...

Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (25 Jan 2018)

Gino Kenny: I welcome the lifting of the ban which keeps licensed premises closed on Good Friday. I have one issue for the Minister of State, which others may have already raised. Workers in public houses have two certain days off a year. Will these workers be compensated in any way? It should not be compulsory to work on that day. As far as I know public house workers have had that day off with pay....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (25 Jan 2018)

Gino Kenny: 12. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will request the release of a person (details supplied); his views on the position of UNICEF that the ill-treatment of Palestinian children in military detention is widespread, systematic and institutionalised; his further views on the fact that Israel is the only nation that systematically detains and prosecutes children in a...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018 Second Stage: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2018)

Gino Kenny: I welcome this Bill because anything that strengthens tenants' rights is welcome and progressive. The rental market in Ireland is a racket. It is a racket where some unscrupulous landlords make fast profits and the Government has created the conditions for this. We can argue about the housing, rent and homelessness crisis but the Government has created the conditions for those. It has...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2018)

Gino Kenny: Last year 15 cyclists lost their lives on Irish roads, the most in a decade; 2017 turned out to be an annus horribilisfor cyclists and their families. More than ever people are using their bicycles to go to work or for leisure. I am a very keen cyclist and cycle in here every day and I see that it is dangerous to cycle in the city. The Minister's colleague tabled a Bill last year, the Road...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (17 Jan 2018)

Gino Kenny: 23. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons that make new claims for social welfare payments must have a public services card (PSC); if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is evidence that new claimants are being told that they will not be eligible for payments unless they hold a PSC; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1911/18]

Hospital Trolley Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2018)

Gino Kenny: When the unacceptable becomes acceptable we have a major problem not only in our health service, but in society. I know the Minister said over the Christmas period that the trolley crisis is unacceptable - he said the same last year. It is somewhat Orwellian to say it is unacceptable but it is acceptable. It is similar to the housing crisis, whereby the Taoiseach said it was normal. It is...

Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Jan 2018)

Gino Kenny: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise this issue. Those living with phenylketonuria, PKU, have been engaged in a protracted campaign to get access to the drug, Kuvan. Over the past eight years, access to Kuvan has been assessed and rejected by the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, NCPE, on two occasions, namely, in 2009 and 2017. That process is questionable...

Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (16 Jan 2018)

Gino Kenny: All Members received an email from the PKU Association of Ireland earlier. The association does amazing work for those living with the condition. I had no knowledge of PKU until a few months ago. It has been enlightening and educational to find out about the condition and how it can be treated. All members received the email and the PKU community is hoping that there will be a positive...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: First-Aid Training (16 Jan 2018)

Gino Kenny: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to making occupational first aid training compulsory for all physically able teachers and SNAs (details supplied); if it will be fully funded by the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54326/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (16 Jan 2018)

Gino Kenny: 850. To ask the Minister for Health if he has given consideration to reimbursing the €80 charge that persons with haemochromatosis must pay if they do not hold a medical card for venesection procedures; if the petition from persons who are anxious for the charge to be removed will be responded to; if further consideration will be given to adding haemochromatosis to the long-term...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (16 Jan 2018)

Gino Kenny: 1389. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the NTA and TII to prepare a report on the placing of rubber infills on sections of the new Luas line that would enhance the safety of cyclists crossing the tram lines at busy junctions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55052/17]

Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)

Gino Kenny: That is a political statement.