Results 701-720 of 4,359 for speaker:Gino Kenny
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: I can see how that would be problematic. As to regulation of the services parents and children have to attend, the Mental Health Commission's report stated that there is very little regulation. How concerned is Ms Morrison about this? Parents are paying a great deal of money for services.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: It is incredible that 99% is not regulated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: What does it mean in reality if 99% of these services are not regulated? Are some people saying they are A, B, C or D when they are not and they are not trained to make assessments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: Which is not the case at the moment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: It was mentioned that parents were going to other jurisdictions for assessments. Is that widespread?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: Where are the other jurisdictions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: When a child who has had an assessment and is on medication comes into CAMHS is the assessment changed with regard to how the drug is prescribed?
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (17 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: 27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make direct contact with the Israeli embassy in relation to the illegal detention of the executive director of the Aida Youth Centre in the Aida Refugee Camp Bethlehem (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56757/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: I thank Mr. Kearns and Mr. Dolan for their opening statements. Would they accept that there are a variety of opinions on this issue in the disability community? We have had witnesses at the committee who hold a variety of views on this. Would Mr. Dolan and Mr. Kearns accept that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: Right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: I have worked in the disability area and have spent a lot of time advocating for assisted living. Assisted living is extremely important, but I also am of the opinion that in specific circumstances a person should have a say and should be able to die on his or her own terms. As I have said many times before, in the vast majority of jurisdictions where assisted dying has been legislated for,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: What if we had all of that? I accept that there are huge deficits in the context of disability services. I understand this and most other people understand it as well, but conflating the issue with assisted dying is unhelpful. There is an element of scaremongering around conflating issues with assisted dying. It is unhelpful in the context of the larger debate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: Of course. Life comes before death.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: No. They are complementary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: I have said before there are huge deficits with regard to disability services and the Government should do more, as successive previous governments should have.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: Even if those deficits with regard to disability services were done overnight, would that change people's opinions, particularly in the disability community?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: I get that. I absolutely get it. However, if this committee were to put recommendations that, on the grounds of disability, somebody could not avail of assisted dying, would that change Mr. Kearns's opinion on this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Engagement with People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2024)
Gino Kenny: On the grounds of disability.