Results 101-120 of 3,879 for speaker:Gino Kenny

Select Committee on Social Protection: Rent Supplement Increases: Department of Social Protection (13 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: Can the relieving officer intervene because this could be more widespread than people think?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Rent Supplement Increases: Department of Social Protection (13 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: Does Ms Faughnan not think that the relieving officer has a responsibility? This is taxpayers' money being pocketed while the mortgage goes into arrears.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Medical Service (14 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 41. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to work with the Department of Health​ to establish a comprehensive review of prison health, with urgency, and to endorse the recommendation of the UN Committee for the Prevention of Torture that prison healthcare services be brought under the responsibility of the Department of Health and operated by the HSE. [21722/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Medical Service (14 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 43. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will​ work with the Minister for Health on establishing a review of prison health towards addressing the serious deficiencies which exist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21724/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Visiting Committees (14 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 42. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will expedite​ ratification of the optional protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture and to establish effective national preventative mechanisms under the protocol, including reformed and strengthened prison visiting committees. [21723/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (14 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite plans to add Mandarin Chinese to the leaving certificate curriculum; if he will address the equality issues related to the differential treatment of Mandarin Chinese in relation to the number of speakers here and the number of speakers internationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21728/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prison Medical Service (14 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 172. To ask the Minister for Health his plans, if any, to bring prison healthcare services under the responsibility of his Department and operated by the HSE; if he will expedite these plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21721/16]

Order of Business (19 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: In light of Ireland's commitment at the UN General Assembly in 2012 to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, when will the necessary legislation be introduced? Given the convention has been already ratified by 156 countries, it is time we ratified it.

Domiciliary Care Allowance: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: I will probably need a quarter of the time available to me. As the saying goes, less is more. I welcome this Private Members’ motion on the domiciliary care allowance and easier access to a medical card not based on financial circumstances, but on medical need. The hardship of an acute medical prognosis, which is then questioned and audited by unnecessary bureaucracy, leads to undue...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Living Wage (20 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 68. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to introduce a living wage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18801/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Culture 2025 - Éire Ildánach: a Framework Policy to 2025 and Related Matters: Discussion (7 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: It is an education listening to the witnesses. Somebody mentioned an aspirational investment of 0.3% of GDP. That is something like what Apple has paid in tax in the last few years. Over the last eight years, everybody will agree, expression and creativity has suffered dramatically because of austerity. Obviously, many other things have suffered as well. If one thing comes out of this,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Regional Development, Rural Affairs, Arts and the Gaeltacht: Culture 2025 - Éire Ildánach: a Framework Policy to 2025 and Related Matters: Discussion (7 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: Yes, I will talk to the Minister, Deputy Noonan, later on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Priorities for Department of Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (7 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: Most of my questions have been asked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Priorities for Department of Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (7 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: I want to focus on one area, that of age discrimination against those under 26, particularly in respect of social welfare. As Deputy Brady said, the system is discriminatory against young people who cannot find work. They are being discriminated against because of their age and it has very serious implications. Single parents are also being discriminated against. Are there plans to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Priorities for Department of Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (7 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: That is quite a generalisation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Priorities for Department of Social Protection: Minister for Social Protection (7 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: Generalisations are generally not true.

Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: I received a telephone call last Saturday from a gentleman in Cork in regard to his wife who suffers from lupus and has been in chronic pain for the past 20 years. The man's wife has been told by her neurologist that if she could access Sativex, which is an oral spray used typically by people who suffer from multiple sclerosis, it could help her condition. I understand that in July 2014 the...

Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: I understand that the cost of making the drug available is estimated to be €4,000 to €5,000 per patient per annum. Is the Minister of State saying that the manufacturer is out-pricing the HSE or that the HSE does not believe it is getting value for money?

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: I will probably take less than one third of the time available. I welcome the Bill as an attempt to improve road safety and reduce the toll of death and disability as a result of road traffic accidents involving motorists, pedestrians and cyclists. The moves to introduce lower speed limits and recognise driver disqualifications in other jurisdictions are welcome. However, I question the...

Pharmacy Fees: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: The motion proposed by Fianna Fáil on the Government's responsibility for high drug costs and pharmacy fees is inadequate and dripping with hypocrisy. Since the late 1980s, successive Fianna Fáil Governments have devastated the health service, cutting bed numbers from more than 18,000 to just over 10,000. Our bed numbers per head of population are now 2.8 per 1,000 compared to an...