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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Media (12 Dec 2023)

Gino Kenny: My question relates to the Minister's engagements and, in particular, her recent meeting with representatives of the big social media platforms. We have already seen that social media plays a significant role for the far right and how it spreads its disinformation and rhetoric. Will the Minister give us a progress report on how she got on with those social media platforms?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Media (12 Dec 2023)

Gino Kenny: I thank the Minister. These platforms make a vast amount of money. A vast number of people engage in social media, the large majority of whom are responsible and do not spread hate. However, in recent years, certain agitators have used rhetoric and tones it is incredible they get away with. Social media platforms have a responsibility, for those who are viewing this stuff and for society...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023)

Gino Kenny: In October, the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use made more than 30 recommendations in respect of our drugs policy. Has the Taoiseach received that report from the chair of the assembly? If so, when will he make it public? Most importantly, what does the Government plan to do to implement those recommendations?

Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023)

Gino Kenny: I commend the authors of the report, in particular, the Irish Women's Parliamentary Caucus. This is a comprehensive motion and a tapestry for a framework on the nature of rights-based care and the evolution of care. At one stage in our history, people in care were institutionalised. That model obviously does not work and the community-based system in place now is better than the system we...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: But has the Government reprimanded the Israeli ambassador?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: 145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he and his Department have taken to date to secure the release of Irish citizens in Gaza and those being held hostage by Hamas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50659/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: My question relates to Irish citizens in Gaza. I compiled the question two or three weeks ago. The Tánaiste had to reschedule this session. Irish citizens are still in Gaza. There was really good news about Emily Hand, the Irish-Israeli girl who was released. I would like to hear the Tánaiste's thoughts on resolving the issue of Irish citizens who are still in Gaza.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: I commend the officials, especially those in the Irish embassy in Cairo, who have done a huge amount of work on this. There was a glimmer of hope and humanity at the weekend when Emily Hand was released. Children have paid a terrible price in the past eight weeks, regardless of their nationality. My heart sinks to see any child kidnapped or murdered. A terrible thing is happening. Irish...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: Those who escaped Gaza in recent weeks also have relatives in Gaza. My understanding from the Irish citizens who have escaped Gaza is that the Irish embassy and the Department of Foreign Affairs are actively trying to reunite them with some of their relatives, especially those in dire situations. That would be very welcome. The reaction at the weekend of the Tánaiste's counterpart...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (29 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: I wish to raise an issue I have raised numerous times over the past two years and one I think my colleagues in Dublin Mid-West have also raised. It is the lack of public health nurses in Dublin Mid-West, which is the area I am from. This is particularly acute in Newcastle, Lucan and Clondalkin. As the Minister of State can imagine, public health nurses are vitally important for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Staff (29 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: That is extremely disappointing, to say the least. It does not really say anything at all. I do not know what to say to that. All I can say is that the recruitment freeze is obviously compounding the issue. The Minister of State might be able to answer the following question. Is the recruitment freeze having an impact on the recruitment of public health nurses, especially in the CHO 7...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: My thoughts, solidarity and support are with the families of the children who were terribly blighted and injured on Thursday. Those brave people who intervened, the ordinary decent Dubliners, whether from Dublin or from around the world, are the heroes, as are the emergency responders. There is an element who for a long time have been fomenting hatred and poison and who hijacked the events...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: The hostages.

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: Millions of people across the world have taken to the streets in cities to show their solidarity and absolute horror at what has gone on in the last six weeks in Gaza. Last Saturday, more than 50,000 people went on the streets in Dublin and Belfast to show their solidarity. A whole cohort of people are becoming politicised by what is going on in Gaza. Not only do they see the hypocrisy of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Contracts (21 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: Given the murderous assault by the Israel Defense Forces does the Tánaiste's Department intend to continue to purchase goods from Israel whether they are for defensive reasons or for dual purpose reasons? As the Tánaiste will have seen, Israel is not a normal state. Israel runs on the basis of perpetual violence and oppression. How can any state call itself a democracy while...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Contracts (21 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: Why would the Tánaiste's Department have any sort of trade agreement with the state of Israel? In the last five years, the Tánaiste's Department has procured more than €6 million of Israeli defence equipment. Some of that is for dual use. Will the Tánaiste tell me - or give me a kind of an answer - as to why in the name of hell would this country want to do any sort...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Contracts (21 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: There should be-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Contracts (21 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: That is gobbledygook.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Contracts (21 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: Ireland needs to take a moral and principled stand against the state of Israel. In the past five years Ireland has spent €6 million procuring Israeli goods and services. Surely the Tánaiste is not saying that given what Israel has done in the past in the last six weeks - and continues to do - that somehow this is business as usual. Surely the Tánaiste does not believe...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Contracts (21 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: I did not.