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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Gino Kenny: Yes.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Gino Kenny: This has been going on for decades

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Gino Kenny: The school is----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Gino Kenny: Yes, I understand. The Tánaiste does not know this area.

Future of Regional Pre-Hospital Emergency Care: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2023)

Gino Kenny: I would like to thank the Regional Group for this important and timely debate on emergency services. I commend the emergency services, which continue to provide everybody with emergency cover. We all have emergencies during one part of our lives. The services do a crucial job in protecting us and our families and friends. That has to continue. The pandemic has thrown up a significant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Gino Kenny: I thank the witness for her statement. It was quite a refreshing critique of Sláintecare. We have been speaking about this for a considerable amount of time. On the implementation of Sláintecare, it was said it has a mixed scorecard. What score would the witnesses give it out of ten?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Gino Kenny: Four out of ten thus far.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Gino Kenny: That is really low.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Gino Kenny: Piecemeal reform was mentioned in the statement. Is that how the witness views progress regarding Sláintecare?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Gino Kenny: It has taken a crisis like the pandemic to expedite some of these reforms. As Deputy Shortall said, during the height of the pandemic the notion of private and public health care just went out the door. Sláintecare is trying to provide universal healthcare for everybody. However, that is not the reality. More than 50% of people in this country have to rely on private healthcare....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin (1 Mar 2023)

Gino Kenny: I thank the representatives. Unfortunately, I have to go because I have to speak in the Dáil.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, will ballot its members on industrial action very soon. It is doing this in pursuance of safe staffing. It has repeatedly asked the Government to intervene to take pressure off the health system and its staff. Nurses in this environment have stated that it is very unsafe. Will the Government intervene, uphold and listen to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [9961/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: Deputy Boyd Barrett raised this issue at the Business Committee. It would be good if we had statements next week on safe staffing issues in Irish hospitals. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, has said the situation is not conducive to staff safety and patient safety. It would be in the public interest to have statements on that issue next week.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (28 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: 85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he can clarify the Government’s plan to deal with recent EPA figures that show increases in CO2 emissions in the State, and that Ireland is the worst performer in the EU, according to EUROSTAT data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9972/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: Before Christmas, I raised with the Tánaiste and the Government the issue of establishing a special committee on assisted dying. That was three months ago. The Government stated the committee would be established either before or after Christmas. Three months later the Government has not nominated any of its five members. There is a ridiculous situation where the chairperson of the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: That is a terrible answer.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: It shows complete disrespect for the idea. The Tánaiste did not even stand up.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: The Tánaiste did not stand up.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Feb 2023)

Gino Kenny: It is important-----