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

Gino Kenny: The INMO appeared before the health committee two weeks ago and painted a very stark picture regarding capacity. The organisation is calling for thousands of extra beds in the public health system. It laid out where the deficiencies exist in the health system. INMO members are the people on the front line. The representatives focused on the lack of beds in the Irish health system where...

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

Gino Kenny: I will be happy to get the Minister's answer on this question so I will skip my 30-second introduction.

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

Gino Kenny: I am taking his question as well, just to make things more complicated.

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank the witnesses for coming in and for their excellent work on the citizens’ assembly. This has been a forthright and healthy debate and one that has needed to happen for some time. We would all agree that we have had six decades of legislation that has not worked. It has criminalised whole swaths of communities and left in its wake a trail of failure. If anybody in this room...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I do not think they have the appetite for it, to be honest. The work the assembly has done is excellent. I think there is a mood change in the public and even in the Oireachtas, but I do not sense there is an appetite in certain sections of the Government. They just want the status quo to continue. I hope I am wrong.

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: Does Mr. O'Neill agree the status quo has been a policy by successive governments and they are happy enough with it?

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. I want to go back to the decriminalisation model in an Irish context. We have to look to the past in order to look to the future. Senator Marie Sherlock referred the response I received to a parliamentary question a few months ago. It was very revealing and startling in terms of the adult caution scheme in regard to cannabis. It stated that from 14...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: It is happy enough with the status quo. There are elements within the Garda who would be more progressive regarding the status quo, but those at the top echelons of society are more than happy with it. Mr. Reid said before that there is a class element to this issue. If the devastation of what is happening was happening in more affluent areas, it would be a completely different response...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: 5. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) recently published the Irish national ICU audit annual report showing that an average 5.6 critical-care beds per 100,000 population were open in 2022, which is less than half the mean value of 12 for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, countries; and if he will make a statement...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. My question relates to the Irish national ICU audit. There was a recent audit on intensive care beds in the State. It pointed out a number of an anomalies and, obviously, deficiencies. There were also positive things in that report on our healthcare system. I wish to hear the Minister’s views on the report.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I acknowledge there has been significant progress in intensive care beds since Covid-19, which exposed crack lines in medical need. Obviously, there is more demand in our public healthcare system because of population growth and so forth. Obviously, not having ICU beds creates a knock-on effect and a trickle-down effect. If there is full capacity at ICU level, that will have a knock-on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I accept that. I said from the outset that there has been progress in respect of ICU beds. The report referred to the issue across our health system in retaining staff who are trained here and who may emigrate and so forth. There are mitigating circumstances in this regard such as the work-life balance and staff getting accommodation in built-up areas like Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: Yes.

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

Gino Kenny: 7. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) stated that over 604 patients were treated without a bed in Irish hospitals on the Wednesday after the June bank holiday and that this level of overcrowding, which is now consistent and continuing into the summer, at a time when winter respiratory infections are not circulating, indicates that the system...

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

Gino Kenny: This is the Gino Kenny show at this stage. My next question is about the statement by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation last week on bed capacity. More than 604 patients were being treated without a bed in Irish hospitals last week. That is completely unacceptable and is a continuous thing. We cannot have people without proper provision in our hospitals because that will have a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I have mixed up my notes. Does Deputy Smith want to go ahead?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: 1. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that a nursing home (details supplied) is facing closure; if he will instruct the HSE to take over operation of the home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25784/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: There has been a great deal of uncertainty with regard to the future of Lucan Lodge Nursing Home in the past couple of months. Hopefully, the Minister of State can shine a light on the future of the nursing home because the relatives, the staff and everybody involved want to know what is its future of going forward.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank the Minister of State. Those who work in the home and the residents and their relatives are very concerned about its future. There has been ongoing awareness and protests with a view to keeping the facility open. I have a number of questions. Will the HSE consider taking over the facility on a full-time basis? If not, would other providers be interested in taking it over? The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: That is relatively good news. If there is a scenario where none of the care providers is in a position to take over, it would be a disaster if facility had to close because it would mean the 50 residents would have to seek other accommodation. There is also the situation of the staff. People are very happy there but they are very worried about the long-term future of the nursing home. It...