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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (6 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: 507. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a recently published report from the Health Research Board, National Drug Treatment Reporting System: 2015-2021 Drug Treatment Data, showing rapidly increasing drug use in Ireland; and if he will consider a different legal approach based on decriminalisation. [60570/22]

Joint Committee On Health: People Detained in Secure Forensic Mental Health Facilities: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: I thank the witnesses for appearing before us. My questions are mainly directed to Ms Joyce. What is the definition of a forensic mental facility because I have never heard it called "forensic"?

Joint Committee On Health: People Detained in Secure Forensic Mental Health Facilities: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: What would be the definition of somebody who is deemed unfit to plead?

Joint Committee On Health: People Detained in Secure Forensic Mental Health Facilities: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: I am guessing that in certain circumstances, the person has committed some pretty horrendous crimes.

Joint Committee On Health: People Detained in Secure Forensic Mental Health Facilities: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: So if people convicted of minor crimes were in Mountjoy or Wheatfield, they might spend a small amount of time there but if they are in the CMH, they will spend multiples of that time period there.

Joint Committee On Health: People Detained in Secure Forensic Mental Health Facilities: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: On the judgment of the courts that they are not fit to plead?

Joint Committee On Health: People Detained in Secure Forensic Mental Health Facilities: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: So there are situations where somebody who has committed a relatively minor crime could be in a facility such as this for years because their capacity is compromised in some way and that the State feels that because they do not have capacity, they will be incarcerated indefinitely. There are cases where this has happened.

Joint Committee On Health: People Detained in Secure Forensic Mental Health Facilities: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: My final question is on recovery. Obviously, if people are in this institute or facility, recovery and rehabilitation is key to reform. There is a gravity to why people are incarcerated in the first place. I presume there is a full spectrum of that from relatively minor crimes to crimes that would be of a very serious nature. On recovery, if somebody commits the most serious crimes of...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2022)

Gino Kenny: I am disappointed that there is not a Minister with responsibility for the health portfolio here. It is not acceptable. We should have been notified before the debate. I am not blaming the Minister of State as I do not think he should be in this position, but we should have been told in advance that there would not be a Minister present. It makes a bit of a mockery of the debate really....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: 27. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [59248/22]

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: I welcome the motion and the good work of Deputy Ó Ríordáin on this matter. He has a good track record in dealing with the issues surrounding drug reform, which is very welcome. Reading the motion, you do not know whether to cry in despair or keep your head up pushing for reform. It is a damning indictment of successive Governments that what has occurred has been allowed to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: 174. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has rehired a person (details supplied) who was heavily criticised in the investigation into the organ retention scandal in the mid-2000s; and if he will outline the hiring process that was employed. [59626/22]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: I am sorry I had to leave earlier. I will have to leave again in a few minutes. I hope I am not repeating any questions that other members have asked. On the pandemic recognition payment, there was huge welcoming of it but the Government has made a dog's dinner of it, unfortunately. This relates especially to workers who are non-HSE, including private workers and those who work for...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: On clinical negligence, the Minister was saying in 2010 the figure was €81 million, I think.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: The projected figure this year or even next year could be six times that amount, if I am reading this right.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: That is up to €500 million.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: That is absolutely incredible.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: What is pushing this? Why is it going up incrementally by that amount? It is an amazing amount of money for negligence. I am aware things happen in the health service but this is an incredible figure.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: Okay.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: On clinical negligence, one could draw from it that people are either taking more litigation against the health service or there is an issue with the service. The figures are quite unbelievable. Is it the situation that doctors and medical professionals are under such pressure in respect of resources that they are making more mistakes? We understand mistakes happen in health services but...