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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: I received a response to a parliamentary question on the issue of public health nurses in Dublin Mid-West. I was slightly shocked at the response from the HSE. It said that, in that particular area, Dublin Mid-West, it had not recruited one public health nurse. It is a really damning indictment of where we are at if the HSE cannot recruit one. Zero have been recruited. There are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: 5. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a severe shortage of public health nurses in Dublin Mid-West; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19873/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: This question is on the severe shortage of public health nurses in the Dublin Mid-West area. This is not an isolated situation and it is the same across a lot of community healthcare organisations, CHOs. I would like to get the Minister's thoughts on the shortages, especially in Dublin Mid-West.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: This has been going for a number of years. There are parts of Lucan, north Clondalkin and Newcastle where parents of newborns and infants have had no checks on their children. That can only be a bad thing. I was looking at the trend in the last five years when it comes to public health nurses. There has been a steady decline in retention of them. That is very worrying because, as the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: 2. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the report conducted by the Health Research Board that informed his Department of the current status of the medical cannabis access programme, MCAP; when his Department will consider the findings and make a clinical decision on whether to expand the criteria of the MCAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19872/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: Earlier this year the Health Research Board, HRB, published a very extensive report on the efficacy and safety of the medical cannabis access programme. The programme has been in place since 2019. Could the Minister give me his thoughts on the report and what the Department of Health intends to do next?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: The concept of the medical cannabis access programme is a good idea, because the licensed system is very bureaucratic and, in some instances, archaic. Since the inception of MCAP, only 55 people have got access. That is a tiny number of people given that the legislation was introduced in 2019 and the access programme in 2021. The HRB report says there is significant evidence of good...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: I understand the appeal of licensed products, but the MCAP was set up for those who have tried every known medication for their condition and they want to be in a position where they could try a number of these other medications. It think nine medical cannabis products are listed, which is better than it was perhaps 18 months ago, but there is enormous frustration with the restrictions and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: I concur with Deputy McNamara on having a debate, particularly around the inquest into Aoife Johnston's death. It would be in the interest of not only Aoife's family but in the public interest as a whole that we have a debate in the coming days or weeks on what happened in Limerick University Hospital and on emergency departments, ED, across the State.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: I know the Minister commented earlier on the Irish Dental Association, which has painted a stark picture of children's oral healthcare. It was before the Joint Committee on Health last year and will be again next week to address screening. More than 100,000 children did not get the basic screening in primary school. I remember, when I was growing up, a dentist coming three or four times...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (25 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: 29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that one in five (19.7%) people unable to work due to disability live in consistent poverty, that this is almost four times higher than the national average (5.3%); what measures will she take to lift people with disabilities out of poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9513/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Work Supports (25 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: 353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the Youthreach programme functions above the 166 days for students, given the reduction in staff who are employed as pro-rata teachers/resource persons; the percentage breakdown, by centre to indicate the way staffing levels change during this time (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18532/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Work Supports (25 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: 354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if principal officers and deputy principal officers who work within the Youthreach education service read the Youthreach Employee Wellbeing Report 2022: A review of employees’ experience of working in the Youthreach Sector, published in January 2023; if he has concerns which may have been raised by the Youthreach Employee Wellbeing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: My first question is one I have been trying to ask, and this is probably a good place to ask it. How much of an effect does people looking at screens have on eyesight? We are on our phones, computers and so forth for a good part of the day. Is it affecting people’s eyesight, particularly children’s?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: Is there any way of mitigating us constantly looking at screens? We all have to look at screens because of our jobs and so forth.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: My final question is on the correlation with diabetes. Mr. Mullaniff stated that 10% of people with diabetes would develop vision impairments. Diabetes is on the increase and many people do not know that there is a correlation between diabetes and eyesight. Until my aunt lost her eyesight a number of years ago due to diabetes, I would never have thought that there was a correlation. What...