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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Provision and Healthcare Professionals: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: Would palliative sedation be the same thing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Provision and Healthcare Professionals: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: In the past three months we have ascertained a number of things in this committee. There is no legal impediment for Ireland to introduce assisted dying. We have gone through that in relation to the Constitution. It is up to legislators to possibly introduce legislation on assisted dying. Public opinion has indicated that the clear majority of people would support assisted dying in limited...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Canada: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: I thank everybody for their submissions, and good evening from Ireland. My first question is to ensure I am interpreting things right. Any of the five contributors can correct me if I am wrong. Is anybody opposed to assisted dying, even in the most limited circumstances? If anybody opposes assisted dying in the most limited circumstance, maybe they could say it or indicate it. By that, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Canada: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: So people go through palliative or hospice care and, at the end of that juncture, they may choose voluntary assisted dying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Canada: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: On public opinion in Canada, I presume there is support for voluntary assisted dying. There may be concerns about broadening the criteria. Even those who are in the middle of this debate will probably have concerns, and that is perfectly legitimate. I introduced a Bill on this issue three years ago. I fully support the personal choice of those who want to avail of assisted dying and think...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying in Canada: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: My first question relates to lessons we can learn from Canada. As legislators, as I said earlier, we are trying to address this issue as a committee. On many occasions, popular support has been expressed in Ireland for changing the law on assisted dying. There is popular support in Ireland, Britain and most other European countries. As legislators, we have to listen to popular support,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: 483. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make funding available for a drug from Merck called sotatercept, this drug which has had positive results to treat pulmonary hypertension a condition that is progressive and incurable effecting heart and lungs. [44643/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: 484. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that will be available for new drugs and clinical trials in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44644/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: 485. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if reports that no funding for new drugs and clinical trials will be available for 2024 are correct. [44645/23]

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: It is very obvious that we should not be in this position. It should not have come to this. These workers provide a vital service in our community, yet they have to potentially go on strike on Tuesday. That is embarrassing. There is no disrespect to the Minister and to the Minister of State personally, but it is embarrassing. This country is awash with money and for the money they are...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: The people of Gaza are paying an absolutely terrible price for the crimes of Israel.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: Already 300 children have been killed by bombs by the Israeli state. These are tantamount to war crimes. Cutting off electricity, with no medical supplies and no food, to 2 million people is tantamount to a war crime. What has happened over the past week would sicken anybody in this House. Nobody wants to see anybody die. Will the Tánaiste use his influence as the Minister for...

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: I have a few questions. The first is about the timeframe for the secondary Bill in relation to all the concerns I think everybody has. I agree with the Minister about flavouring. I think there should be several flavours. I believe there is a lack of regulation in the whole system of vaping. As was said, no matter where we go, into a phone shop or wherever else, we can find these vapes....

Select Committee on Health: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (12 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: Is it possible to ban disposable vapes by statutory order?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (12 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a hall at a school (details supplied) is inaccessible to the students attending a school; if it will be made available to the students for use; if so, when; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44622/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when work on a new school building for a school (details supplied) will commence; the timeframe for commencement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44626/23]

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: I am going to concentrate my time on all matters relating to health. The budget in regard to health has been very low key and quite bland. Normally, in my experience of budgets in these Houses, health budgets have been headline news regarding the level of provision and so forth, but this budget has not delivered on anything in the form of proposals relating, in particular, to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (11 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: 5. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the community safety innovation fund will be extended next year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43854/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (11 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: What future does the community safety innovation fund have? I understand it is in its infancy but could the Minister lay out its future over the next two to three years?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (11 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: It is very welcome that there is extra funding for this initiative. My only criticism is that it is not targeted as it should be. In areas which have been subjected to criminal activity by these gangs, one will find areas of deprivation where this manifests itself. The funding should be a bit more targeted with respect to these particular areas. It is welcome, however. It raises the...