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Other Questions: Consular Services Representations (25 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the presidential decree of law 140 was submitted again for a person (details supplied) in August 2016 and that there is limited time this decree can remain effective; if he will put adequate pressure on the Egyptian Government to ensure the person can be released as many inmates...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Immigration Policy (25 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 37. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the destruction of the refugee camp at Calais; if he has made inquiries regarding the health and safety of the more than 10,000 adults and children living there; if he will advocate for the safety of the residents by strongly protesting any attempts by the French authorities to forcibly move residents;...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (25 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will identify to Dáil Éireann the countries which are taking part in, or supplying weapons or military ordnance to support, military aggression in Syria and Yemen; if he will call in the ambassadors of those countries to account for such action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31808/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (25 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 476. To ask the Minister for Health the level of compliance with the Disability Act regarding assessments of need commencing within three months and being completed within three months and assessment reports with service statements being issued; the level of complaints received regarding the process and the timeframe to achieve an outcome with these complaints; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Prices (25 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 486. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated saving to the health budget and to the out-of-pocket expenses of the public, were drug prices here equivalent to each of the five EU countries with the lowest drug prices, in addition to Portugal and Denmark if they are not included in the lowest five; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32003/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 487. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a memo has been sent to doctors in St. James's Hospital that the hospital can no longer see patients from other counties for some endoscopy services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32004/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: I thank Mr. McKeon. I have a few questions for him and I will probably set out my stall relatively quickly. I have a problem with the idea that people have to work for social welfare and from an ideological perspective, that is wrong. With JobBridge and labour activation measures, there has been job displacement and exploitation from the start. JobBridge has been controversial from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: Some of it has done so. Is the Gateway scheme compulsory?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: The participant gets an extra €20. That is very controversial.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: In reference to JobPath providers, is Mr. McKeon talking about a private company?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: It is hard to believe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (20 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: I find that astonishing. It has been privatised to a company to get people to work. I find that extraordinary.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy (20 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the final outcome of the review of national cycling policy framework, NCPF, implementation which was at an interim stage in 2013; his proposals for completing the implementation of the 19 objectives and 109 actions of the NCPF, having regard to the NCPF criteria for success (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Services and Supports for People with Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: People Before Profit welcomes the opportunity to discuss supports for people with dementia in the community and to draw attention to the urgent need for resources for them. I have first hand experience in this area as I worked in a hospital ward specifically for patients with dementia and Alzheimer's disease. The education and life experience I received there will always shape who I am....

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (19 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: I will be brief. I hope the Minister of State will be able to answer my questions about the assessment of needs for children with disabilities in the Dublin Mid-West constituency. This is a crisis of our time, in some ways. The position in my locality is mirrored across the State, where there are huge waiting times for children to be assessed. Given that early intervention is of key...

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (19 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: I think we have a problem because waiting times are so long that they contravene the Disability Act 2005. Essentially, this means children are waiting for services for more than six months. The State is breaking its own law. This has serious implications for the State and for the children who are not being seen. There is a possibility that families will bring the State to court because...

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: The Deputy should withdraw that remark.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times (18 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 40. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons treated by the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, who are on a waiting list for treatment from a consultant who also works privately carrying out that treatment for the NTPF; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30689/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staff (18 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 43. To ask the Minister for Health the way, in the absence of additional funding for mental health in the budget, A Vision for Change can be implemented when secondary mental health services, adult mental health services and child and adolescent mental health services have only three quarters of the recommended staff in adult services and less than half in children's services, while...