Results 1-20 of 3,863 for speaker:Gino Kenny
- 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...
- 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...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: On life expectancy, in the opening statements, the witnesses said it was three years. Has that fluctuated in recent times?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: How common is a transplant in the State?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: What is the life expectancy if somebody gets a lung transplant?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: Mr. Hurley spoke about oxygen. To me, it as though it is a very elementary provision for his condition. In his statement, he said he struggles to get proper oxygen from the HSE. Why is that? As I said, I would have thought that would have been quite elementary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: Is this out of your own money?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: Is it the case that Mr. Hurley does not get a medical card?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: Is Mr. Hurley not entitled to a medical card?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: That is extremely unfair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: Mr. MacAuley said in his statement that he used his knowledge of fitness. In terms of his dad, how did that pan out in respect of a fitness regime?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: How did yoga help?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Agreements (23 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: 2. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware that over 160 civil society organisations from across the European Union have issued a statement against the EU migration pact stating it will have devastating implications for the right to international protection in the EU and greenlight abuses across Europe, including racial profiling, default de facto...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Agreements (23 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: There has been lots of commentary about the EU migration pact. Over 160 civil society organisations have stated that it will have a detrimental effect on migrants' rights across the EU so I would like to hear the Minister's thoughts.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Agreements (23 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: There has been lots of commentary about this pact. Those on the left will be voting against it while those on the far right will be voting against it for very different reasons. The issue of asylum and finding sanctuary in the EU was tainted well before this. A toxic mix of xenophobia, hatred and division is being stoked up by those on the far right who are trying to whip up division not...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Agreements (23 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: I agree. I think Ireland is a very welcoming place. Let us hope it stays that way. When you drill down into this pact, you see a semblance of, for want of a better word, internment of adults and sometimes children. Human rights advocates are saying that migration is being weaponised by those who want to malign migrants coming to the EU. This is a bad day for human rights, particularly in...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: Josip Strok was a Croatian man, a carpenter, who came to Ireland for a better life. Two weeks ago, he was murdered. In the eyes of his attackers, who said he was not speaking English, he was not welcome in Ireland. That is absolutely grotesque with regard to migrants and others coming into this country. The Taoiseach will agree with me that hateful and xenophobic language is trickling...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)
Gino Kenny: -----but to everybody in the country, and that it is a threat to everybody?