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Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (6 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: Does the Minister for Social Protection stand over his assertion that the one-parent family payment was not cut by the previous Government, and will he make a statement on the matter?

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (6 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: The plan is probably the most ill-thought-out and ill-funded policy of the past four or five years. There are more anomalies and holes in it than any other social welfare policy of the past five years. It has compounded poverty among lone parents. While the Minister is right that it has not touched the core value of the one-parent family payment, it has touched the income of a parent going...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Lone Parents: Department of Social Protection (6 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: I thank the officials for coming. This measure was introduced in 2012 and there have been more anomalies and holes in it than Swiss cheese. The more I look at it, the more it looks like single parents were targeted for political reasons. Deputy Joan Collins touched on what it was all about. As she said, next year the income of a lone parent who is working 20 hours a week and in receipt of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (6 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 47. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will reverse the discriminatory cuts to social protection payments to young adults under 25 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28733/16]

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: The crisis in the mental health system appears to be the perennial problem that simply will not go away. It appears to be the sick man of the health service that does not seem to get better. One of the best demonstrations I attended recently was the protest outside this building last spring. The protest, which was organised by the Union of Students in Ireland and Mental Health Reform,...

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: It will take 20 seconds.

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: It states:The Greek name for a butterfly is Psyche, and the same word means the soul. There is no illustration of the immortality of the soul so striking and beautiful as the butterfly, bursting on brilliant wings from the tomb in which it has lain, after a dull, grovelling, caterpillar existence, to flutter in the blaze of day and feed on the most fragrant and delicate productions of the...

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: Can I just finish? It literally is 20 seconds.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (4 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 379. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to address the national lack of paediatric pathology services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28127/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (4 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 388. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to remedy the lack of paediatric orthopaedic consultants; when Tallaght Hospital will have its cancelled fracture clinic reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28199/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (4 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 389. To ask the Minister for Health the reason parents of children with fractures who attend Tallaght Hospital accident and emergency department need to go through another accident and emergency department such as Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, to obtain aftercare for their children; his views on whether this is a waste of resources and an unnecessary stress for sick children...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (4 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 466. To ask the Minister for Health if he will fund home care packages on a demand-led basis to reduce the unnecessary suffering and financial costs of the delayed discharges from hospital and residential care; if he will quantify these financial costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28592/16]

Pharmacy Fees: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: The motion proposed by Fianna Fáil on the Government's responsibility for high drug costs and pharmacy fees is inadequate and dripping with hypocrisy. Since the late 1980s, successive Fianna Fáil Governments have devastated the health service, cutting bed numbers from more than 18,000 to just over 10,000. Our bed numbers per head of population are now 2.8 per 1,000 compared to an...

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: I will probably take less than one third of the time available. I welcome the Bill as an attempt to improve road safety and reduce the toll of death and disability as a result of road traffic accidents involving motorists, pedestrians and cyclists. The moves to introduce lower speed limits and recognise driver disqualifications in other jurisdictions are welcome. However, I question the...

Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: I received a telephone call last Saturday from a gentleman in Cork in regard to his wife who suffers from lupus and has been in chronic pain for the past 20 years. The man's wife has been told by her neurologist that if she could access Sativex, which is an oral spray used typically by people who suffer from multiple sclerosis, it could help her condition. I understand that in July 2014 the...

Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: I understand that the cost of making the drug available is estimated to be €4,000 to €5,000 per patient per annum. Is the Minister of State saying that the manufacturer is out-pricing the HSE or that the HSE does not believe it is getting value for money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: Let me say well done to the representatives of Age Action Ireland and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. It is not easy to come before a joint committee to make a presentation to members. There is probably a bigger narrative here but it is outside their remit. The social damage done to the country since 2008 because of cutbacks to the most vulnerable has been akin to social vandalism....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: 655. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that women travelling for an abortion are facilitated to have all relevant medical information sent by their doctor here to the doctors in the medical centre abroad where they are to have their abortion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26913/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Recruitment (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: 656. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland imports more doctors and has more medical graduates than any other EU state but still has one of the lowest numbers of practising doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26915/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Elder Abuse (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: 657. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the allegations of institutional abuse and neglect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26916/16]