Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Truthfully, I do not have that information but I get what the Deputy is saying and I have a way of getting the information for him. I submit a report to the Government about phasing every three weeks and I will see what I can share with the Deputy on that matter in writing. I will also share it with the House. We do look at the different categories. So far as secondary mortality and morbidity are concerned, and the Deputy will agree with me on this, those are very hard at this stage to detect with any degree of certainty.

The longer it takes to resume certain services, the greater the impact would be on secondary morbidity, which I think is the issue the Deputy is getting at. I do not want to eat into his time. I have seen a draft of the resumption of non-Covid care plan from the HSE. The HSE very kindly shared a draft with my Department. There was a meeting between my Department and the HSE yesterday on this. The final version will go to the HSE board, probably next Wednesday, and will be published by the HSE. I am telling the Deputy this because within that, quite a bit of analysis has been done on the loss of care from Covid, that is, what we are losing out on today in terms of services that would have been provided. I should be in a position to share that with the Deputy next week.

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