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- Residential Tenancies (Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 May 2017)
Gino Kenny: I will cut to the chase in this debate. This crisis is manufactured. It has been in the mists for the last seven or eight years. It is a crisis that has been caused by politicians like the Minister of State - I do not mean that personally - and his party colleagues, as well as members of Fianna Fáil looking the other way. It is a crisis that has brought untold misery to thousands of...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017) Gino Kenny: I find the whole campaign on fraud unsettling and bewildering. This is a family show so I will not use the expletives I would otherwise. I find it nauseating that the Minister would use €200,000 of public funds to humiliate people on social welfare. I ask the Minister if he has ever been on social welfare. He can answer that later. As Deputy Brady asked, is this a solo run or a...
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017) Gino Kenny: I talked about other types of fraud.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017) Gino Kenny: It will cost €200,000 to compile the list. I have first hand experience of this matter where people were routinely humiliated in court.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017) Gino Kenny: It is outrageous that the Department will publish a list of people like the one's I have referenced.
- Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017) Gino Kenny: The Minister should be ashamed of himself.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Exchequer Returns (18 May 2017)
Gino Kenny: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance if the proceeds of moneys captured in criminal drug hauls are included in GDP figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23822/17]
- Equal Participation in Schools Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2017)
Gino Kenny: I commend Deputy Coppinger on bringing the Bill forward. This is a worthwhile debate to address religious discrimination in State schools. The subtext to the debate is the power of the Catholic Church and its iron grip on society. Thankfully, that grip has been dramatically loosened over the past 20 years, but it needs to be loosened much further. I was brought up a Catholic but I am not...
- Other Questions: Employment Rights (16 May 2017)
Gino Kenny: Will the Minister consider supporting the Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016 currently undergoing scrutiny on Committee Stage rather than introducing a draft proposal of her own?
- Other Questions: Employment Rights (16 May 2017)
Gino Kenny: I am slightly puzzled why Fine Gael opposes the Sinn Féin Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016. What the Minister has said is that a similar proposal is being drafted currently. In the era of new politics - much is made of that around here - this is old politics. It is actually quite cynical. I understand that the Bill is going through pre-legislative scrutiny currently. However, it is...
- Other Questions: Employment Rights (16 May 2017)
Gino Kenny: I will study the Bill when it comes out. I ask the Minister of State not to take offence to this, but Fine Gael does not have a great track record on workers' rights in this country - far from it.
- Other Questions: Employment Rights (16 May 2017)
Gino Kenny: The Minister of State should acknowledge that there are a lot of workers in this country who are extremely exploited and a lot of companies that are making vast profits from workers' labour. They are very vulnerable at the moment. Anything that copperfastens workers' rights will be welcomed. In the era of new politics, I believe Deputy Cullinane's Bill should be supported and not ground down.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Data (16 May 2017)
Gino Kenny: 389. To ask the Minister for Health the data on trends in the prescription of stimulant drugs to children for the past 20 years; if the collected data indicate an overall rise in problems associated with prescribed stimulants in terms of stunting of growth, cardiovascular anomalies and diversion for recreational or other unauthorised use; the steps he will take to address a rise in...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (16 May 2017)
Gino Kenny: 407. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Health Products Regulatory Authority supports on its website an information leaflet on the medicine fluoxetine (details supplied); if this explanation of thoughts of self-harm or suicide when starting an antidepressant as being due to a delay in onset of action is an evidence based one; if it is...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (16 May 2017)
Gino Kenny: 408. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Health Products Regulatory Authority supports on its website an information leaflet on the medicine fluoxetine which includes with regard to the way fluoxetine works the statement that (details supplied); if this is evidence based information supported by expert mental health professionals; and if he will...
- Topical Issue Debate: Middle East Issues (10 May 2017)
Gino Kenny: What did he say?
- Topical Issue Debate: Middle East Issues (10 May 2017)
Gino Kenny: I thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for taking this issue. As he might know, 1,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are on hunger strike. The strike is in its 23rd day and has been named "Freedom and Dignity". The prisoners are only accepting water and salt to sustain themselves. The reason why the prisoners are on strike is the continuing brutalisation of Palestinian...
- Topical Issue Debate: Middle East Issues (10 May 2017)
Gino Kenny: The Minister should take sides because these are not ordinary prisoners. Most of them have been incarcerated against their will. As the Minister stated, 300 children, who are not part of the hunger strike, are in Israeli prisons. Palestinian prisoners are subjected to the most inhumane treatment Israel can mete out. If it mirrors what Israel does on larger scale - how it treats...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)
Gino Kenny: This could go on forever.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)
Gino Kenny: It was 11 years ago.