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Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (1 Dec 2016)

Gino Kenny: 30. To ask the Minister for Health the urgent respite that can be offered to such carers and the long-term remedy he is considering in view of the reply to parents of disabled adults that there is a ten-year waiting list for residential care and that the HSE is unable to provide them with an average waiting time, or indicate when a bed may be available; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Data (1 Dec 2016)

Gino Kenny: 36. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the monitoring of trends in the prescription of psychoactive psychotropic drugs here, especially to children, over the past 20 years; if his attention has been drawn to concerns regarding the rise in problems associated with prescribed medications, especially opioid painkillers and benzodiazepine sedatives in terms of drug dependency and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (1 Dec 2016)

Gino Kenny: 64. To ask the Minister for Health the number and cost of assessments of needs under the Disability Act 2005, between 2011 and 2015, that were contracted out to therapists in private practice and or carried out by agency staff; the reason HSE employed staff are not being used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37966/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (1 Dec 2016)

Gino Kenny: 69. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite special education assessments, in the view of the National Disability Authority and the Disability Act 2005, due to the failure to commence sections of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004; the action he is taking in his dealings with the Department of Education and Skills and others to address this; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (1 Dec 2016)

Gino Kenny: 82. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that, according to the HSE, in cases of completed applications received for an assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005, between 2011 and 2015, less than two thirds of assessment reports were completed and of those completed, less than two thirds had service statements completed despite the clear requirements of the Act to do so; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (30 Nov 2016)

Gino Kenny: 160. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a person with multiple sclerosis and diabetes can hold a long term illness card for life but yet a person with a long term mental health diagnosis such as schizophrenia is ineligible for the same card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37771/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (30 Nov 2016)

Gino Kenny: 161. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which Ireland is ranked in relation to OECD countries in relation to overall spending in health both public and private and Ireland's ranking for the public funding of health spending in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37772/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Child Abduction (29 Nov 2016)

Gino Kenny: 378. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied); if he will intervene by contacting the Algerian authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37486/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (29 Nov 2016)

Gino Kenny: 379. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action he has taken in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37487/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legalisation of Medicinal Cannabis: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)

Gino Kenny: I read this document 20 minutes ago and found it good. Listening to Dr. Lorraine, however, I was disheartened. What are the terms of reference of the Minister's report? Who is involved and what policy and legislative expertise in terms of medical cannabis does the HPRA have? The Barnes report, which Dr. Nolan is familiar with, was conclusive on the benefits of medicinal cannabis. I had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legalisation of Medicinal Cannabis: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)

Gino Kenny: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legalisation of Medicinal Cannabis: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)

Gino Kenny: Maybe it is mine. Who will be involved in the review?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legalisation of Medicinal Cannabis: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)

Gino Kenny: I will stay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legalisation of Medicinal Cannabis: Discussion (24 Nov 2016)

Gino Kenny: I do not want to pre-empt the conclusion but given that this only affects a tiny number of people, we would lose a major opportunity for people who want to gain access to medical cannabis. We will see what the findings are. Obviously the Bill will be debated next Thursday. There is a groundswell in Ireland and across Europe that medical cannabis is here to stay. It could be of benefit to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (24 Nov 2016)

Gino Kenny: 45. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is within her remit to direct an inquest to be held by a coroner; if she can direct an inquest into the death of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36630/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (24 Nov 2016)

Gino Kenny: 180. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that prescribed low protein foods are required to prevent neurological damage and to supplement the diet of adults and children with phenylketonuria, PKU; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that no new low protein products have been added to the long-term illness card list in more than six years;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Data (22 Nov 2016)

Gino Kenny: 402. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been treated in the past 12 months for whom data are available, using NTPF funding, by a consultant doctor who also had persons on his or her waiting list who had been treated in the same period by a different consultant doctor using NTPF funding; the number of persons who were treated using NTPF funding by a consultant doctor...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Gino Kenny: While I welcome the idea of a report, there have been a litany of reports and we are probably trying to reinvent the wheel. The Millar report is damning of the policy on lone parents. If there is an independent report, who will commission it and will the Minister act on the findings? Had he acted on the Millar report, which would have cost a lot of money, the policy on lone parents would...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Gino Kenny: Consider a case I came across a few weeks ago. A friend of mine has worked in the State all her life and she went to Australia for two years. When she returned to Ireland she went to social welfare and she had problems in signing on. Will the Minister clarify if this amendment would affect people like my friend?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare Bill 2016: Committee Stage (17 Nov 2016)

Gino Kenny: Will somebody explain why amendment No. 21 is being ruled out of order? Deputy Bríd Smith will be here shortly.