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Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: I welcome this Bill. It was a long time coming. It is about two and a half years since it was before the Sub-Committee on Mental Health and I do not know why it has taken that long to come to this juncture, but I am sure the Minister of State has her reasons. It was 23 years ago that we last had a comprehensive review of mental health care. The Bill was probably cutting-edge, to a certain...

Statutory Home Care: Statements (27 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: Yesterday, representatives from Alone were before the health committee speaking about the home care sector. One of the contributors said that a statutory home care scheme was first mentioned in this House in 1968. I looked back and that is correct. A scheme like this was first mooted back in the late 1960s. We have been talking about this for a considerable amount of time and it still has...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank the witnesses for coming in and for their excellent work on the citizens’ assembly. This has been a forthright and healthy debate and one that has needed to happen for some time. We would all agree that we have had six decades of legislation that has not worked. It has criminalised whole swaths of communities and left in its wake a trail of failure. If anybody in this room...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)

Gino Kenny: I accept that. I said from the outset that there has been progress in respect of ICU beds. The report referred to the issue across our health system in retaining staff who are trained here and who may emigrate and so forth. There are mitigating circumstances in this regard such as the work-life balance and staff getting accommodation in built-up areas like Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: Professor Sadlier was on the radio this morning to talk about the working time Act. The committee has discussed the issue many times. It seems amazing that workers in a medical environment are subjected to having to work these hours. There are regulations for truck drivers that mean they can only drive a certain number of hours per week. Doctors are subjected to dangerous hours when they...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: I welcome the motion and thank Deputy Ó Broin for his continuing work on the ongoing crisis in housing. The cutting edge of the last general election was housing and it will also be the cutting edge of the upcoming general election. Housing has been the standout issue for many people. Some people are directly affected, perhaps because they are in a situation of homelessness and just...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Gino Kenny: Dr. O'Philbin mentioned reminiscence therapy earlier. I am fascinated by this. I was looking it up to see what it actually is. I remember when I worked in Cherry Orchard a long time ago - and it was an education - it was only beginning to happen about 20 years ago that music, old photographs and things like that were being introduced. I thought it was really good because the residents at...

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: I acknowledge the really good work all our healthcare workers do on the front line of the health service. We rely on them so much for our care and everybody else's care. I am very critical of the inequalities in our health system but, as I have said many times, once people get into the public system, it is a very good system. They are treated very well and their experience is the best it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Ethics of End-of-Life Care: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

Gino Kenny: I thank all our witnesses. I will begin by saying that some of the language used here in the theses by Dr. Finegan and Dr. Yuill is deeply distasteful and very selective, to say the least. People should reflect on the language they are using in some of the critiques - I am thinking in particular of Dr. Yuill - because it does not stand up. If he is saying that in Canada somebody may avail...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Sep 2023)

Gino Kenny: People Before Profit welcomes this legislation but it is beyond me why it has taken so long to bring it to this juncture. Why do we have to put legislation forward to compel energy companies to give money back? In the last number of years, and well beyond, the companies have been seriously profiteering from the energy crisis. People's bills have borne this out. Ordinary people are...

Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Jun 2023)

Gino Kenny: People Before Profit welcomes the principle of this Bill but many will ask why it took so long to ban the sale of these products to under-18s. It is hard to believe that we are only introducing legislation now because vape products have been around for more than a decade. Questions have to be asked about that. There is no doubt that tobacco companies are luring young people in particular...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Gino Kenny: I welcome this motion from Sinn Féin. It is very topical, very well thought out and very relevant to issues around respite. I worked in respite for a long time. It is an essential service for service users and families. It is like a home from home. You build friendships with clients and so forth and you really cannot put a price on that development, that friendship, that care and...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2023)

Gino Kenny: ...tabled by Sinn Féin. We have had many debates on this issue. We probably cannot have enough debates about our health system. As it is, our health system is good, when people can get access to it. We have some of the best doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants and clerical staff in Europe. They are a very highly motivated and educated workforce, but there are mitigating...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Gino Kenny: Some weeks ago, I was invited by the principal of St. Ronan's National School in Bawnogue in Clondalkin, which is a couple of minutes from where I live, to visit the school. It is a fantastic place for the young people of the area. It is a DEIS school. Several prefabs were built there in the 1990s and to say they are in a state of disrepair would be an understatement. In fact, last year...

Future of Regional Pre-Hospital Emergency Care: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2023)

Gino Kenny: I would like to thank the Regional Group for this important and timely debate on emergency services. I commend the emergency services, which continue to provide everybody with emergency cover. We all have emergencies during one part of our lives. The services do a crucial job in protecting us and our families and friends. That has to continue. The pandemic has thrown up a significant...

Interim Report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Gino Kenny: I welcome this debate and the Mental Health Commission's interim report. It makes for very stark reading, to say the least. The issue of no clinical oversight is at the heart of the report. That is what it comes down to. That branches out to underfunding and understaffing, which is an indictment of mental health services for young people. Young people make up 25% of the population....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: 1166. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a large number of Covid-19 swabbers currently employed in testing centres face lay-offs in late November 2022; the exact numbers planned for lay-offs; if these staff, who worked throughout the pandemic, will be redeployed elsewhere; if he will intervene to ensure that these front-line workers are kept on the payroll over the Christmas...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Regional Health Areas Advisory Group (26 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: Many people working in the health service are put to the pin of their collar concerning everything going on. Turning to Mr. Kearns's statement, his critique of our health service is a breath of fresh air. This is how it can be corrected. Mr. Kearns uses words like "a joined-up, integrated approach to service planning and delivery and ... [empowerment of] those who deliver that care". Is...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2022)

Gino Kenny: I welcome this very important motion on free transport. I think there is a very valid argument in regard to public transport being free, accessible and of top quality. All the evidence suggests that where we have such a system, people will use it. I always remember going to Europe for the very first time and being amazed by the system of public transport. It was the thing that stood out...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General: Financial Resolution (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Gino Kenny: I want to acknowledge the work done by the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, on the issues they have acknowledged in their speeches. It is welcome that there is progress on those issues. I want to start on a positive note because sometimes there is a lot of negativity around here. I will get to...