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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: I thank everybody for attending the committee. It is a fascinating debate. This issue is more about living than dying in some ways. I read Marie's book several months ago and it was one of the best books I have read in a long time. What I got from Marie's words was that she did not want to die but wanted to live. However, because of circumstances not of her choosing, she wanted to end her...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: I saw a film that fundamentally changed how I think about this subject. It is a film from the 1980s called "Whose Life is It Anyway?" and it is quite amazing. It changed my perspective on this issue. Is there not a kind of de factodignity in dying where somebody approaching the end of his or her life in a general hospital is prescribed morphine? Doctors know in such a case that somebody...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Right to Die with Dignity: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: I probably should have put this question to the previous guests. This is probably out of Professor Lewis's remit but I would like to ask about the online availability of drugs individuals could use to end their own lives. Obviously, one can get almost anything online these days. When individuals wish to end their own lives outside the jurisdiction of the law in their own country and take...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services Provision (22 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: 80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the actions and statements of the IAA and CAR in respect of the cancellation of services by a large airline operator; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49283/17]

Order of Business (21 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: The House has spent many hours debating the ongoing housing crisis. There is, however, another national crisis, namely, in the assessment of needs for children. The Government is continually in breach of the Disability Act 2005. Not only is the system broken but many families are broken because they have not had access to simple assessments of need. A number of cases taken against the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Foreign Conflicts (16 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: Perhaps the EU can use its influence on the UN Security Council. A total of 12,000 people have been killed since 2015. The belligerent country of Saudi Arabia is doing most of the killing. It is being armed by the US and the UK. These countries arm Saudi Arabia to the tune of billions of dollars every year. Could the Minister ask his UK counterpart why the UK is arming a country like...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland (16 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: I apologise for the earlier confusion.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Foreign Conflicts (16 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: Has the Minister raised the ongoing famine in Yemen with his counterparts in Europe?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (Resumed): Foreign Conflicts (16 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: I do not know whether the Minister saw last night's "BBC News at Ten" broadcast, which covered the ongoing crisis in Yemen. One can get desensitised to conflict and humanitarian crises across the world. The pictures coming out of Yemen are basically undescribable. Famine and disease are at epidemic levels. Almost 2,500 people have died of cholera since April. Over 12,000 people have died...

Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: People Before Profit will support this good Bill. Any measure that will keep families together in a crisis, such as that relating to homelessness, is good. The problem of homelessness seems to have no end. For the Taoiseach to claim we have a situation of normality with homelessness is an insult to everybody's intelligence. I accept that the Government is trying to address legacy...

Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: Hear, hear.

Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (15 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: 40. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that returning nurses that have trained elsewhere must complete an adaption course to become fully registered to work here but that the number of hospitals offering the course has reduced leading to some nurses having to pay approximately €2,800 to do it privately; the way in which this impacts on their job...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (15 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: 51. To ask the Minister for Health the likely timescale of the conclusion of HSE negotiations with the manufacturer of the drug Kuvan; his views on the urgency of it being made available for persons with PKU here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48174/17]

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: I was not sneering.

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: I did not do anything.

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: That is not true.

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: “ , notwithstanding the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Health in its Report entitled ‘Report on Scrutiny of the Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 [PMB]’, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 12th July, 2017,...

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 Report: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: I will only need five.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: I have to go as well unfortunately. Will the committee still be going in 15 minutes?