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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: 1511. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide additional detail on the targeted funding alluded to in recent comments to the media by the Minister of State for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy to local drugs task forces in areas in which crack cocaine has become a serious issue; the increased supports and resources that will be made available; and the level...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: 1753. To ask the Minister for Health if official names will be used on EU digital Covid certificates in order that they corroborate with the names of persons on passports or drivers licences to avoid any difficulties in cases in which a person needs to identify themselves as vaccinated if they travel abroad when they may habitually use another name such as in Irish. [35461/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: 3099. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration that will be made in the domestic Covid-19 pass system for persons who are medically advised against receiving a Covid-19 vaccination. [40297/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: 2045. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the EU Digital COVID Certificate to come into effect. [36346/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: 2046. To ask the Minister for Health if the EU Digital COVID Certificate will come before Dáil Éireann for debate and examination before implementation. [36347/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: 2047. To ask the Minister for Health if the EU Digital COVID Certificate will be used to regulate access to indoor dining and other hospitality in line with domestic Covid-19 restrictions. [36348/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (27 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: 2384. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) having been diagnosed in April as having dyspraxia, has been awaiting a number of years for an appointment with a psychiatrist; the length of time they are waiting; the number of children on the waiting list for the CHO7 area; the positions they are on the waiting list; when they will receive an appointment; the reason for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: 3100. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 vaccination cards that are unaccounted for across the vaccination centre system. [40298/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (27 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: 3203. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the HSE will provide funding to allow the charities that provide two soup runs in Dublin to remain in operation if the HSE close down on the foot of a HSE environmental health section report. [40765/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate (21 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: Good morning everyone and we will start our meeting now. Apologies have been received from Senators Hoey and the Black. I will introduce our witnesses, who are going to provide an update on the roll-out of the EU digital Covid-19 certificate, DCC. They are: Ms Liz Canavan, assistant secretary general, Department of the Taoiseach; Mr. David Gilbride, head of immigration service delivery,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate (21 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: I thank Ms Canavan. There was a lot of information in that. Ms Canavan referred to the 34,000 calls yesterday, and 40,000 phone calls over the past two days. There is huge public interest in this. The purpose of today's meeting is to try to answer some of the questions that member of the public have. As public representatives, we have been getting many phone calls from people who are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate (21 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: The Deputy needs to conclude.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate (21 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. O'Connor. I need to move on. Deputy Cullinane is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate (21 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: I call Senator Conway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate (21 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: I have a couple of questions. I am one of those people whose name is in Irish on their on the vaccination card. I changed it mid-stream because I realised that was the direction in which we were going. Many people have been in touch with me about this matter. Their names are different on their passports and so on. I have raised this with Ministers. It was as if they were hearing it for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate (21 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: That is great. There are reports that airlines that have not been checking for PCR or antigen tests. Have you been made aware of this? What are you doing to address it? The system operates effectively, and people have confidence in it. Again, the reports are from people who travelled and who were not checked for their PCR tests or for digital certificates on the Irish side.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate (21 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: No, I am talking about people who have travelled out of Ireland. Again, we have seen difficulties in respect of Malta. There was mixed information there. It would be, I imagine, much better for people if everything was checked on the Irish side, before they actually land in another country and are faced with all those difficulties.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate (21 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: The certificates are being emailed or posted out. What is the system there? Is it based on the length of time since someone got the second dose of vaccine? Some people are saying that they were only vaccinated a week ago and have got the certificate, while there are others who were vaccinated a number of weeks ago, more than a month ago or even longer, and they have received nothing in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate (21 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: One of the members already asked that there be a dedicated hotline put in place. The HSE might also consider providing an email address for elected representatives because of the volume of cases that we are getting. We have an issue in relation to people with literacy skills, difficulties with using information technology, IT, etc. People go to elected representatives or others. It would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate (21 Jul 2021)

Seán Crowe: I thank the witnesses. This has been very helpful and much information has been given today. If we have a message for people thinking of travelling, it is that they should not think of travelling without a DCC. People may be able to travel but might have to quarantine and we must get that message to people. The information is useful. There is a request for additional information as...