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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (8 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: 454. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) receiving €144 per week jobseeker's allowance has been turned down for a medical card because they do not reach the €164 which would entitle them to one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14649/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (8 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: 482. To ask the Minister for Health how a person whose income is less than €164 and who is financially independent of their parents can apply for a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14795/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Organisations (8 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: 619. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene with Athletics Ireland and the Olympic Council of Ireland with regard to the non-selection of a person (details supplied) to the three-man marathon team to represent Ireland at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14359/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport and Recreational Development (8 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: 634. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason pigeon racing is not recognised as a sport here, given the popularity of pigeon racing and the positive aspects of keeping pigeons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14643/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Funding (14 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: 431. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently intervene to restore funding for home care packages given that some areas, such as the Beaumont Hospital local catchment area in Dublin 9, have now run out of funding and are unable to discharge patients due to this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15593/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Child Care Services Staff (21 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: 63. To ask the Taoiseach the average wage for child care workers; how this compares to European Union and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development figures. [14721/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (21 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: 421. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the availability of the anti-epilepsy drug Epidiolex here; the arrangements for facilitating access by children with Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome; and if he will intervene to improve access. [17166/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (22 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: 26. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for the direct provision system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17152/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Traveller Community (22 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: 39. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is considering recognising the ethnicity of Travellers during the lifetime of this Government. [17153/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Poverty (29 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: 138. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of children living in relative and consistent poverty here; how this compares to the European Union and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14722/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Labelling (29 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: 185. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the fine of €16,000 imposed on a company (details supplied) for mislabelling the origin of beef products is an adequate response to the food safety and farmer welfare issues involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18569/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (30 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: 32. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will reverse the lower social protection payment discrimination against young adults under 25 years of age given that those under 25 years of age often have exactly the same expenses for food, rent and other needs as those over 25 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18805/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (30 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: 50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will restore social protection payments to pre-austerity levels adjusted for inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18804/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (30 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: 51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will abolish means testing for the carer's allowance, increase the respite care grant and replace the mobility allowance that ceased in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18802/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (30 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: 164. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a commitment to expedite the recruitment of a full-time consultant medical oncologist with a special interest in sarcoma in St. Vincent's Hospital; if he will renew the contract of the locum consultant medical oncologist who has a special interest in sarcoma until the post is filled on a permanent basis; if he will agree to meet the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (5 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the increase in the number of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli security forces in the past year; the number of these children who were arrested without their parents being informed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19412/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (5 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 328. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the increase in the number of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli security forces in the past year; the number of these children that were arrested without their parents being informed; and his views on the use of unnecessary force in arresting and detaining these children in some cases beating them and holding them...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services Provision (5 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 500. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop inpatient rehabilitation services at both national and regional level, to ensure timely access to community neuro-rehabilitation teams, CNT, in each of the nine community health organisations; if he will invest in long-term rehabilitation specific services in the community and provide lifelong support in appropriate settings for persons...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Infectious Disease Epidemics (5 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 512. To ask the Minister for Health the public health advice he has issued regarding the 2016 Olympics in Brazil and the zika virus; how he has publicised this advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15309/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (7 Jul 2016)

Gino Kenny: 325. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the exclusion of former residents of county homes, other than from a minority of four selected county homes, from giving evidence to the mother and baby homes commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20230/16]