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Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: Does the Minister think privatisation of the energy sector has worked? Deregulation happened in the last 25 years. Deregulation and competition were supposed to drive prices down for electricity users but the opposite has happened in Ireland. We had the lowest electricity prices in Europe but now we have one of the highest so something has gone wrong. Private energy companies are doing...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (14 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: 122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise reports of the Iranian authorities shooting protestors and targeting women at the UN Security Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62450/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (14 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: 123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions that he proposes to take given Ireland’s position on the UN Security Council regarding reports of Iran executing protestors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62451/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: I thank everyone for attending to discuss this issue. My first question relates to the first page of the written submission. It concerns the GPs in the State at the moment. It was said there are 4,257, with 2,807 full-time equivalents. What would the figure have been 20 years ago or, even better, 40 years ago?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: It is recommended that the country should have 6,000 GPs. Dr. Farrell said there was a four-year course. To enter the course, what qualifications does a person have to have?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: Nine to ten years before-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: So it is in or around nine or ten years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: What does the four-year course involve? What are the criteria?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: When GPs qualify, where do they gravitate towards? Obviously, there is rural–urban factor. Are they gravitating towards individual or collective practices?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: With regard to the public and private sectors, towards where are doctors gravitating?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: That seems to be the general model.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: On the general practice nurses, Dr. Quinlan is saying there needs to be a doubling over the next period of time. He is saying the general nurse practitioner training course will be delivered. Has there been a high uptake?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: What is the route into general practice nursing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: How long will the course for general practice nurses be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: Six months. It is not that long.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: What skill set would be provided in the six-month course?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: Other Deputies and I have been contacted about the difficulties in gaining access to a GP, even in very urban areas. In the past year, I have received a fair few emails just about seeing a GP where I live, Dublin Mid-West. There are people who have contacted 15 or 20 practices but who have not been taken by them. This is a huge issue. I am not blaming the witnesses, obviously, because...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: A constituent has contacted me about an unlicensed drug called Cariban, which is used to treat hyperemesis. Deputy Richmond raised this matter with the Minister of State yesterday. The situation with this drug is slightly unclear. This condition, as the Tánaiste will be aware, causes extreme vomiting in pregnancy and is dangerous for both the baby and the mother. In this year's...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: 22. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are registered as patients under the medical cannabis access programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61303/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: 32. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the European Commission is proposing that breast screening should be offered to women from the age of 45 years, rather than from the age of 50 as is the case here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61302/22]