Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will take those questions if I may. I thank Deputy Canney for raising these matters. I will take his last question first. He is quite right in what he has said about primary medical certificates. There was very little movement on them up to last December and into January. I met the primary medical certificate team myself two months ago. In the past two months, 471 assessments have taken place. The Deputy is correct in saying there have not been face-to-face assessments. In my own CHO area in Galway, more than 300 assessments have taken place and the plan is to get back to doing face-to-face assessments in the coming months. The team has already determined who needs face-to-face assessments. I must compliment the team for the work being done on this.

As the Deputy knows, most day services did not close during the most recent lockdown but services were reduced. I am assured by the Department and the HSE that there will be a resumption of services on a three-days per week basis. Transport is being reviewed at the moment by the Minister for Health, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, myself and the HSE.

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