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Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (6 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 683. To ask the Minister for Health when day and overnight respite sessions will recommence in each community health organisation, in tabular form. [28400/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 684. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to open a new dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scanning unit in South Tipperary General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28401/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (6 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 701. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home helps that have retired from the HSE since 2008; the number of new home helps that have been employed in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28535/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 703. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 related deaths reported in August and September 2020 that occurred in a hospital setting; the other settings in which these deaths occurred; the number of deaths that occurred in nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28564/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (6 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 729. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cycles used in the PCT testing here for the detection of Covid-19; if he has concerns regarding the over-sensitivity of these tests; the steps he is taking to introduce more rapid testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28704/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 734. To ask the Minister for Health if both Gorey and Thomastown district hospitals had been designated as Covid-19 step-down facilities; if the step-down designation of both Gorey and Thomastown district hospitals has been removed, when this occurred; if the two hospitals have reverted to their pre-Covid-19 operation status and use; the reason St. Brigid's Hospital has not reverted to its...

Winter Plan 2020: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I am very disappointed the Minister for Health is not here. This is the second time today that he has abandoned the Chamber for the later speaking slots. It is no disrespect to the Minister of State and I thank her for coming to Clonmel to see the mental health issues there. The youth mental health charity, Jigsaw, saw an increase of 50% in demand for its service in August compared to...

Roadmap for Living with Covid-19: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Self-harm and mental health figures. As I understand it, collation of them was stopped in April. I want the Minister of State to refute that and give me the figures.

Roadmap for Living with Covid-19: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The impact has been enormous. Mention was made by other Deputies about people waiting for cancer smears, bowel screening and prostate cancer. It is all stacking up and people are dying. The figures were given of people dying from all the other ailments. It is one every hour for cancer and 27 a day from stroke and heart disease. There is no talk about it, and some of these are being put...

Roadmap for Living with Covid-19: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I register my disappointment and annoyance that the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, has fled the Chamber again. As the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will know from being a Member of a smaller group speaking at the end, it is very annoying for the Minister always to run away. This is a serious issue throughout the country. I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, but the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of information, it is amazing to see Deputy Fitzpatrick complaining but he votes with the Government on every vote no matter what it is on. The Regional Independent Deputies are voting with the Government. They want to play a double act then of being in opposition. The post office network is under the remit of either the Minister or his ministerial colleague, Deputy Catherine...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: They will be gone.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: When are you going to do that?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: That is not very helpful. The school transport system is a mess. The Minister is talking about €750 million this year, €450 million more than last year. He would be better off subsidising parents to drive their kids to school and forget his green ideals. We have buses passing by and cars travelling in front of them and behind them and the whole thing is organised chaos. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The Government has lost €100 million.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: It has not. It has managed it badly.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister has left children behind.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister is avoiding the most important part.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister never referred to the children who were left behind.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad the Minister for Transport is here. This week Bus Éireann announced that it is to scrap a number of its Expressway routes, significantly reducing connectivity between our major cities and the regions. The removal of the X8 service between Dublin and Cork, for example, will have a major impact on students and commuters travelling from Tipperary to either Cork or Dublin and...