Results 121-140 of 3,879 for speaker:Gino Kenny

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services Provision (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: 655. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that women travelling for an abortion are facilitated to have all relevant medical information sent by their doctor here to the doctors in the medical centre abroad where they are to have their abortion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26913/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Recruitment (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: 656. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Ireland imports more doctors and has more medical graduates than any other EU state but still has one of the lowest numbers of practising doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26915/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Elder Abuse (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: 657. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the allegations of institutional abuse and neglect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26916/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: 730. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the lack of funding on a demand-led basis for home care packages is obstructing the HSE's capacity in facilitating timely hospital discharges, leading to unnecessary suffering in the community as well as increased hospital costs; the net cost of budgetary restrictions in home care packages and delayed...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: 897. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reverse the recent decision by the NTA to cut funding for cycleways, including segregated cycle paths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26914/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: 957. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the arrangements in place for ensuring that in accessing the free preschool education years, there is no discrimination based on date of birth in relation to a child's eligibility for funding at the start of the school year. [26917/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (27 Sep 2016)

Gino Kenny: Let me say well done to the representatives of Age Action Ireland and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. It is not easy to come before a joint committee to make a presentation to members. There is probably a bigger narrative here but it is outside their remit. The social damage done to the country since 2008 because of cutbacks to the most vulnerable has been akin to social vandalism....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (4 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 379. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to address the national lack of paediatric pathology services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28127/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (4 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 388. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to remedy the lack of paediatric orthopaedic consultants; when Tallaght Hospital will have its cancelled fracture clinic reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28199/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (4 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 389. To ask the Minister for Health the reason parents of children with fractures who attend Tallaght Hospital accident and emergency department need to go through another accident and emergency department such as Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, to obtain aftercare for their children; his views on whether this is a waste of resources and an unnecessary stress for sick children...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (4 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 466. To ask the Minister for Health if he will fund home care packages on a demand-led basis to reduce the unnecessary suffering and financial costs of the delayed discharges from hospital and residential care; if he will quantify these financial costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28592/16]

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: The crisis in the mental health system appears to be the perennial problem that simply will not go away. It appears to be the sick man of the health service that does not seem to get better. One of the best demonstrations I attended recently was the protest outside this building last spring. The protest, which was organised by the Union of Students in Ireland and Mental Health Reform,...

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: It will take 20 seconds.

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: It states:The Greek name for a butterfly is Psyche, and the same word means the soul. There is no illustration of the immortality of the soul so striking and beautiful as the butterfly, bursting on brilliant wings from the tomb in which it has lain, after a dull, grovelling, caterpillar existence, to flutter in the blaze of day and feed on the most fragrant and delicate productions of the...

Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: Can I just finish? It literally is 20 seconds.

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (6 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: 8. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is still of the view that the one-parent family payment was not cut by the previous Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28732/16]

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (6 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: Does the Minister for Social Protection stand over his assertion that the one-parent family payment was not cut by the previous Government, and will he make a statement on the matter?

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (6 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: The plan is probably the most ill-thought-out and ill-funded policy of the past four or five years. There are more anomalies and holes in it than any other social welfare policy of the past five years. It has compounded poverty among lone parents. While the Minister is right that it has not touched the core value of the one-parent family payment, it has touched the income of a parent going...

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (6 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: I will list the main points in terms of income. The qualifying age was cut to seven years and income disregard was cut from €147 to €90, which meant a loss of €28.80 per week for working parents. According to the most significant stat, if a lone parent worked 20 hours for the minimum wage in 2015 and got FIS, he or she would have been down 17% compared with what he or...

Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payment (6 Oct 2016)

Gino Kenny: These are facts.