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Regulation of Charities: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: I congratulate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on his election. I will start and finish this contribution with quotes. The first is from an Irish priest and I will conclude with a quote from a Brazilian priest. The first is a person who has challenged social injustice in Ireland, Fr. Peter McVerry. He said:In a community that loves one another, there should be no-one poor, unless all are poor;...

Topical Issue Debate: Voluntary Sector Remuneration (12 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: I am glad to have an opportunity to raise this important issue. Over the weekend, people will have read astonishing revelations concerning executives in the St. John of God organisation who were paid €1.64 million. Some of the individuals in question received €50,000, while others received €250,000. I worked for St. John of God services for two and a half years, during...

Topical Issue Debate: Voluntary Sector Remuneration (12 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive reply. This issue raises a question which is depressing in some ways. From where did St. John of God get the sum of €1.64 million to pay 14 of its senior managers? If it was not provided by the Health Service Executive, it must have been raised by service users' families, as occurs in many voluntary services, through sponsored...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (12 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 16. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the recruitment of a full-time consultant medical oncologist with a special interest in sarcoma in St. Vincent's Hospital in Dublin 4; if he will renew the contract of the locum consultant medical oncologist who has a special interest in sarcoma until the post is filled on a permanent basis; if he will agree to meet the Sarcoma Action...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (12 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 82. To ask the Minister for Health the action he is taking to progress the development and staff levels and contracts of general practitioners, including the provision of care free at the point of use to children under 12 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20943/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (12 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 72. To ask the Minister for Health the increases in staffing that have been achieved to deal with the crisis in primary care psychology, speech and language therapy and occupational therapy services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20942/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 77. To ask the Minister for Health the increases in staffing that have been achieved to deal with the crisis in home help and carer respite services; the number of persons in hospital with their discharge delayed waiting to access these services; the number of carers that have been unable to continue as carers due to the lack of respite services; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Carers Strategy Implementation (12 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 122. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made on implementing the recommendations of the national carers strategy; when he will publish and fund phase 2 of the strategy between 2016 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18803/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commission on Water Charges (12 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 313. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the public procurement or other procedures that were used to appoint members of the expert commission on water charges; the remuneration that is to be paid to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20780/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (7 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 325. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the exclusion of former residents of county homes, other than from a minority of four selected county homes, from giving evidence to the mother and baby homes commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20230/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (5 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the comments of a person (details supplied) that torture and abuse takes place in the prison and that a person not receiving the same level of support that they did; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19352/16]

Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: It is in legislation. That has happened over eight years, when Fianna Fáil was in government and Fine Gael was in government-----

Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: It is proposed legislation. We have to address this issue because this is a social cancer.

Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: First, it is to address poverty in this country, but also to address the fact that 300 individuals have acquired €89 billion since 2008. That is absolutely criminal.

Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: The Government has to address that. Citizens in this country are suffering because of it. They are not the collateral damage of austerity. This is the human face of austerity and the Government's ideology.

Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: Can the Taoiseach address this?

Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: I do not know if the Taoiseach has seen the new report today from Social Justice Ireland. I will outline it main points.

Order of Business (5 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: If the House is going to deal with it, it is very important. According to Social Justice Ireland the recession has pushed 100,000 more people into poverty, 750,000 people live below the poverty line in the Republic and one in five children live in households with incomes below the poverty line. Obviously the recession is having a huge impact in this country. It is incredible that since...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (5 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the increase in the number of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli security forces in the past year; the number of these children who were arrested without their parents being informed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19412/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (5 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 328. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the increase in the number of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli security forces in the past year; the number of these children that were arrested without their parents being informed; and his views on the use of unnecessary force in arresting and detaining these children in some cases beating them and holding them...