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

Gino Kenny: I have found the discussion extremely insightful and very informative, so far. Access to orphan drugs is a very topical issue in Ireland at present and I wish to ask a couple of specific questions. Can the HSE overturn a decision made by the NCPE? If so, where has it happened and for which drug? Mr. Hennessy referred to the assessment of orphan drugs. In my view the process is largely...

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

Gino Kenny: Wear a balaclava.

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

Gino Kenny: Is that the only one?

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

Gino Kenny: Was the patent running out?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network Expansion (7 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: 1008. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the DART expansion to Hazelhatch and the LUAS to Lucan plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45873/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Railway Stations (7 Nov 2017)

Gino Kenny: 1009. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for the opening of the Kishogue train station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45874/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Engagement with Committee for Labour and Social Protection, Chamber of Deputies, Parliament of Romania (26 Oct 2017)

Gino Kenny: The delegation is very welcome to Ireland. I was in Romania three years ago and had a fantastic time. People are extremely friendly and it is an amazing country. I have a question for Ms Calista, who touched on the issue of disability. I presume Romania has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Amazingly, Ireland has not ratified it. This is astonishing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Availability (26 Oct 2017)

Gino Kenny: 46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all public land zoned for housing will remain public land into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45305/17]

Other Questions: Teacher Recruitment (25 Oct 2017)

Gino Kenny: 50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the lack of primary school teachers available to fill both long-term and short-term posts (details supplied); his plans to rectify this through setting up supply panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44858/17]

Other Questions: Teacher Recruitment (25 Oct 2017)

Gino Kenny: I do not wish to be alarmist but there is an emerging crisis in the primary education system. The lack of substitute teachers has led to the traditional student-teacher model becoming quite dysfunctional. On eight occasions there were no teachers to supervise classes in Adamstown Castle Educate Together school in Lucan, which is in my constituency, and that meant classes were put together...

Other Questions: Teacher Recruitment (25 Oct 2017)

Gino Kenny: It is more than anecdotal evidence. The chairwoman of a group representing principals of primary schools in Dublin 15 wrote an alarming letter to The Irish Times, the first few sentences of which stated:We have collated the figures for the month of September 2017 alone and they make for disturbing reading – the number of school days when substitute teachers were not available to cover...

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2017)

Gino Kenny: I would like to raise the issue of the way in which drugs to treat rare illnesses such as phenylketonuria, cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy are assessed by the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics. There seems to be a bias against people with rare illnesses in this country. Not only are they discriminated against by their condition, which they have not chosen, but they are also...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (25 Oct 2017)

Gino Kenny: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the financial hardship, immense stress and poor morale that is caused to teachers who continue to experience pay inequality; the steps he will take to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44859/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Loans (24 Oct 2017)

Gino Kenny: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance the conditionality there will be regarding affordability of houses that will result from the new, Home Building Finance Ireland, HBFI, initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45304/17]

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Oct 2017)

Gino Kenny: This month marks the third anniversary of the biggest mobilisation this country has ever seen. Over 150,000 people mobilised three years ago against water charges. I was one of those people. At that time the former Taoiseach, Deputy Kenny, said that this was about more than just water charges. He was right. The people of this country had had enough. They had reached breaking point....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Provision (17 Oct 2017)

Gino Kenny: 56. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the impact a club (details supplied) has had on local young persons interested in animal and equine care; if she will work with her colleagues in other Departments to introduce similar programmes in disadvantaged areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43528/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Provision (17 Oct 2017)

Gino Kenny: 64. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will visit a club (details supplied) to examine the positive results of young persons coming together to identify their own areas of interest with community development workers; her plans to use this model in working with young persons interested in animal and equine care in other disadvantaged areas; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (11 Oct 2017)

Gino Kenny: 34. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the NTA's decision to tender out 10% of Dublin Bus routes to a company (details supplied) will improve bus services in view of the fact that in a written reply to a question the agency cited studies that are over ten and 16 years old to support their case for competitive tendering; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann Services (11 Oct 2017)

Gino Kenny: 40. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the future of Bus Éireann following the recent crisis and closure of several routes is best served by a policy of competitive tendering for 10% of its existing network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42139/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Grants (10 Oct 2017)

Gino Kenny: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the hardship that the withdrawal of Government subsidies towards mandatory Gaeltacht courses for student primary teachers has caused; if these subsidies will be reinstated in budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42483/17]