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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: That would be helpful because it is not in the report.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: I will again raise an issue I raised this morning. It relates to the number of healthcare workers who have been identified as having Covid. Some 2,878 of these had an underlying medical condition. That figure is very high. Where a person had an underlying health problem, were serious efforts made to ensure they were not put at risk? Was a protocol in this regard available to each and...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: When was that devised or made available to the people in charge of the various facilities around the country, be it hospitals, healthcare facilities or congregated settings?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: Does Dr. Sisson think more could have been done, in the sense that 2,878 people identified with Covid were people with underlying medical conditions?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: Do we have a number out of the 2,878 people who were in that category?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: We hear various percentages referred to in the context of the 8,000 healthcare workers identified with Covid in this country. There are various figures. What is Dr. Sisson's view of the percentage of the total healthcare workforce? We got a breakdown from her in the report on the profile of Covid-19 cases among healthcare workers and it cuts across all areas from administration to care...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: Is that taking the staff in both the public and private facilities?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: Is the 8,000 not made up of people from private nursing homes as well?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: Therefore, if we take the 135,000, plus around 30,000 in the nursing home sector, is Dr. Sisson talking about 8,000 out of that total number?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: Could we get a breakdown of the numbers who were not in the workforce but who are identified as part of the 8,000?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: That identified with Covid.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: I thank all the organisations for the work they have done in very challenging times. With more than 6,000 people in residential settings, it is significant that people were protected so well. I believe only 166 people were identified as having Covid. It is welcome that the number is so small in these very challenging settings. I compliment all the staff working in them. I wish to focus...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: My point is that there is going be huge growth in the number of people over 65 in the next ten years. It is going to go from 640,000 up to 1 million. The big issue is the challenge about having the numbers of people to provide the support. In the past 12 months when we had full employment, there were great challenges for every organisation to get people to provide the services. That is...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: I am taking ten minutes. I thank our guests for their presentations this morning and the work they have done over the difficult past four months. I especially thank the front-line staff in all our hospitals and community settings. We are facing new challenges. The hospitals do not have the same capacity because of issues around social distancing and the new processes and procedures that...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: Does there need to be more structured approach to GPs accessing diagnostics? The big complaint I have is that-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: Is the IMO satisfied that this can be fast-tracked in order to help?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: I want go back to the cancer services and how they are coping with the new challenges. What kind of numbers do we need to be able to deal with these new challenges in staffing numbers? Have we looked at what we need in that area and where we can recruit staff from? One of the other issues we have with healthcare is that while everyone is talking about the numbers of people we have in the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: How many SpRs is Ms Clyne talking about?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: Of that number-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: Of the 160?