Results 1,001-1,020 of 4,359 for speaker:Gino Kenny
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: Yes.
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: Yes, sorry.
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: I was slightly clumsy with my words. I agree with Mr. Reilly. There is better language than that.
- Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Gino Kenny: My apologies to the committee as, unfortunately, I have to leave.
- Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: There has been an alarming increase in road fatalities. Compared with the figures in 2019, there are now 50% more fatalities, which is staggering because in Ireland we had a good campaign of awareness around road deaths. The figure had been going down significantly over the previous ten to 15 years, but that is not the case now. Obviously, there is a range of factors contributing to why...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (25 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: There has been much frustration about the lack of progress with the medical cannabis access programme, MCAP. The first time the access programme was mooted was in 2017 after a report by the Health Products Regulatory Authority, HPRA. In the meantime, there has been a lack of progress. Since 2016 and 2017, there has been much campaigning by families and individuals to get access. The...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (25 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: The Minister of State can understand why people are frustrated. The programme has been up and running for two years and fewer than 50 people have got it via prescription. This review is going on forever. It was first mooted a year and a half ago. My most recent correspondence with the Health Research Board indicated that this is an ongoing review and will be finished by the end of the...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: Over the weekend, the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use completed its work after six months. The clear message from the citizens' assembly is to end the status quo. As I said to the Taoiseach two weeks ago, we have had six decades of this that have failed. People have been criminalised. They have been brought through the criminal justice system and through the prison system. It just has...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: Decriminalisation.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: It is.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: So do I.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: I welcome the witnesses. My first question is for Professor Binchy. Does he think the taking of one's life is a sin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: Does he not think that if someone is in that position-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: Does Professor Binchy acknowledge that over the past 30 years, there have been huge societal changes in Ireland, including changes in regard to divorce, marriage equality and women's right to choose? They have all been progressive changes. Things have changed dramatically in Ireland. We are trying to wrestle with the question of people's autonomy and choice regarding their own life. Why...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: That is a completely different set of circumstances. Professor Binchy is conflating issues that are not relevant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: I would say that they need intervention and so forth. It is disingenuous to conflate the two issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: We are talking about two different issues. We are talking about societal issues and an issue where somebody is coming to the end of life and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: -----they should have a choice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: There is a major difference.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying and the Ethics of Autonomy: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)
Gino Kenny: I will tell Professor Binchy what I would do. If a person came to me saying that their marriage had broken down and all that kind of crisis, I would tell them that if they were threatening to take their own life, they should not do it. I would tell they could seek help and all that. I will go to absolute circumstances to make that not happen. If somebody – this has happened...