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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: I received a response to a parliamentary question on the issue of public health nurses in Dublin Mid-West. I was slightly shocked at the response from the HSE. It said that, in that particular area, Dublin Mid-West, it had not recruited one public health nurse. It is a really damning indictment of where we are at if the HSE cannot recruit one. Zero have been recruited. There are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: 5. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a severe shortage of public health nurses in Dublin Mid-West; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19873/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: This question is on the severe shortage of public health nurses in the Dublin Mid-West area. This is not an isolated situation and it is the same across a lot of community healthcare organisations, CHOs. I would like to get the Minister's thoughts on the shortages, especially in Dublin Mid-West.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: This has been going for a number of years. There are parts of Lucan, north Clondalkin and Newcastle where parents of newborns and infants have had no checks on their children. That can only be a bad thing. I was looking at the trend in the last five years when it comes to public health nurses. There has been a steady decline in retention of them. That is very worrying because, as the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: 2. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the report conducted by the Health Research Board that informed his Department of the current status of the medical cannabis access programme, MCAP; when his Department will consider the findings and make a clinical decision on whether to expand the criteria of the MCAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19872/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: Earlier this year the Health Research Board, HRB, published a very extensive report on the efficacy and safety of the medical cannabis access programme. The programme has been in place since 2019. Could the Minister give me his thoughts on the report and what the Department of Health intends to do next?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: The concept of the medical cannabis access programme is a good idea, because the licensed system is very bureaucratic and, in some instances, archaic. Since the inception of MCAP, only 55 people have got access. That is a tiny number of people given that the legislation was introduced in 2019 and the access programme in 2021. The HRB report says there is significant evidence of good...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: I understand the appeal of licensed products, but the MCAP was set up for those who have tried every known medication for their condition and they want to be in a position where they could try a number of these other medications. It think nine medical cannabis products are listed, which is better than it was perhaps 18 months ago, but there is enormous frustration with the restrictions and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: 30. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) has said the latest Department of Health/HSE-commissioned IGEES report into the public hospital system is about saving money rather than patient safety and investing in services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19870/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: 56. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) recently said the latest NTPF figures indicate that waiting lists may take a decade or more to get under control unless the opening of long-promised additional hospital capacity is fast-tracked and consultant posts are filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19869/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (2 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: 57. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) has warned that his Department risks repeating the same regressive mistakes of the austerity years if it plans to move away from health service investment in order to prioritise savings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19871/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: This has been a very interesting discussion. I want to go back to the future, as Marty McFly did, to 1985 and the Dentists Act of that year. In terms of oral health nationally, where are we at now? Are we in a better place today than we were in 1985? I am aware this is a very general question but I would like to start there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: How much of a factor is social class in oral health? There are, obviously, flaws in the medical card scheme. If access to dental healthcare is to be largely on a private basis, people in particular social class groupings are at a disadvantage in accessing that care.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: Is that rare?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: Is that normal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: Is it fair to say that children will probably only get one screening over the lifetime of their primary education?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: I was in school in the 1980s and I remember the dentist visited every year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: So none.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: That is bad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: My final question relates to the proliferation of dental treatment abroad. Obviously it is a very popular phenomenon, whether it is for cosmetic or other dental care. The big driver of that is the cost abroad, which is a fraction of the cost in Ireland. Are our guests worried about the proliferation of this new phenomenon of dental healthcare abroad?