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Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: ...not been implemented, which does not make sense. I would like to hear the Minister's views on that. I have first-hand knowledge of personal assistance, given I was a personal assistant for a long time, particularly in the context of people who want to be able to live independently in their own home. We cannot put a price on that service. It is really important that the pay and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank everybody for coming in this morning. I am sorry that I missed about half an hour of the presentations and general discussion. How many people in Ireland are living with long Covid? Is there a figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: This drug has been used with other conditions. Dr. Lambert said it was quite beneficial for those with long Covid. Have the witnesses been prescribed LDN?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: Is there any reason behind some people who get Covid recovering over a certain period of time and others such as those with long Covid not recovering or taking a considerable amount of time to recover? Is there any correlation between these?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: What is the recovery rate for those with long Covid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: The witnesses say in their statement there is no "evidence-based medication licensed to treat Long Covid". Have there been any medications used in the past or present, especially around auto-immune diseases, or any medications used to treat long Covid that are unlicensed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: What are Dr. Bannan's views on low dose Naltrexone for treatment of long Covid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: Are some medical practitioners using that drug to treat patients with long Covid?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: With respect to comparable conditions, we are trying to understand as best we can what long Covid is and it is obviously multifaceted. Is there anything comparable in the witnesses' medical, professional experience of what long Covid is, what it does to the human body and the longevity of that in terms of people's physical condition and mental capacity as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: Are there people who, having been diagnosed with long Covid, have not got over it and have just gone on gradually with it getting more progressive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: This is being used in certain circumstances in relation to people with long Covid.

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Gino Kenny: It is good that Stormont is functional again. It is certainly historic in that it breaks the long lineage of unionist dominance for over 100 years in the northern part of Ireland. I would argue that, for the last two years, there has been a democratic veto by the DUP on spurious grounds in regard to the protocol. There are many factors relating to that protocol. As a result of that veto,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (13 Feb 2024)

Gino Kenny: ...consider the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use. That is a good development about which I have a number of questions. First, when will that committee commence and, second, how long will it go on for? If it goes on for a protracted period, it could run into the next general election and then nothing will happen. I hope the special committee will be short-lived,...

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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Gino Kenny: ...to all of the training and beliefs of the witnesses. I refer to diagnosis and prognosis. I am sure the witnesses have had very difficult conversations with people who have asked them how long they have to live. That can be difficult. Even saying that to somebody can be difficult. In the professional opinion of the witnesses and based on their previous experience, when somebody asks...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Examination of Potential Consequences - Protecting and Enhancing the Provision of Palliative Care: Discussion (12 Dec 2023)

Gino Kenny: I understand that. Obviously, for people at that particular time of their life this is a complicated area. However, if somebody asked a doctor how long they have left can they give some sort of assurance?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: ...past 25 years has been people coming from different parts of the world, not only to enrich our culture, but also everyone else. It is the most important thing that has happened to Ireland for a long time. Correct me if I am wrong, but demographics are one of the factors driving the Supplementary Estimates. They are playing a major part in demand, and that is good. What was the...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: .... Those brave people who intervened, the ordinary decent Dubliners, whether from Dublin or from around the world, are the heroes, as are the emergency responders. There is an element who for a long time have been fomenting hatred and poison and who hijacked the events on Thursday. These fascist agitators have been doing this for a considerable time. Their vitriol and commentary are...

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023)

Gino Kenny: ...population rely on private health insurance. That is not a sustainable model for healthcare, not to mention universal healthcare, which Sláintecare is striving for. It is a good model, but we are a long distance from having a system for providing universal healthcare. The recruitment embargo is deeply upsetting and troubling and will without doubt have a knock-on effect on...