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- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: Financial liabilities to families that are going through the courts. According to this document, some €5 billion is-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: My question relates to nursing home charges, which is an ongoing issue. I understand this goes back a number of decades and the information can be quite opaque, but it raises many questions regarding how the Department of Health and successive governments dealt with this issue. My question is valid and it is to be hoped the Taoiseach can answer it. There are issues in respect of families...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (31 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: 87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent election of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; if he has had any contact with his government regarding Palestine, the Occupied West Bank and Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4450/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (31 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: 133. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the engagements he has had at EU or UN level regarding a Palestinian driver who was reportedly pepper sprayed and shot by the Israeli defence forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4449/23]
- Interim Report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: I welcome this debate and the Mental Health Commission's interim report. It makes for very stark reading, to say the least. The issue of no clinical oversight is at the heart of the report. That is what it comes down to. That branches out to underfunding and understaffing, which is an indictment of mental health services for young people. Young people make up 25% of the population....
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (26 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: 160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that a mechanism is put in place for councils/AHBs to buy homes where there is a notice to quit and the tenants are above the income limits for social housing but below the limit for cost rental; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3713/23]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: The programme for Government states that a national director for mental health would be reinstated and would directly report to the CEO of the HSE. Given the gravity of the Mental Health Commission's report, the lack of clinical oversight and the repercussions for children, will the Minister of State consider reinstating this position in our health service?
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (25 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: 177. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) has still not been paid the pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3548/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (25 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: 191. To ask the Minister for Health when the clinical review of the medical cannabis access programme will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3638/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: The individual health identifier was widely used during the pandemic. Since the pandemic, how much is this identifier being used in everyday health settings?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: How long will it take to roll out this programme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: There is the substantial issue of the extent to which Irish hospitals are digitised with regard to their paper base. I am pretty taken aback by the answer. Professor Martin Curley of Maynooth University reckons that 85% of all Irish hospitals remain paper based. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: Professor Curley is correct that 85% of hospitals are still-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: It is definitely north of 50%. Professor Curley says it is 85% so the figure is somewhere in between.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: I presume it will take a long time to make the change to digitisation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: Obviously, digitisation can be done. It has been done in other jurisdictions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: Yes, we are doing it but we are way behind. Considering Ireland has all these IT companies-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: There are obviously huge advantages for efficiency in digitalisation but there are also possible pitfalls.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)
Gino Kenny: What pitfalls?