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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: 440. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) regarding the ongoing issues facing the blood cancer community during the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50926/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: 50. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 473 of 8 September 2022, the reason that he will not give consideration to the request to extend the evening opening time of the National Botanic Gardens in view of the widespread public interest in visiting the facility; if his attention has been drawn to the additional enjoyment that local people...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: What are CVCs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I thank the Chair. I the witnesses for coming in and for their presentation. I echo points made earlier by the first speaker in relation to us being slow to gear up to meet the need in this area. The first case here was identified in May. A public health emergency was declared in July. There was not a lot happening after July, publicly anyway, whatever about what was going on behind the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I am sorry, my time is very limited.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I want an answer to my question on why it is not a definite number.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Yes, I know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Is the vaccine mixed with any other substance to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: It never is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: That is okay. I was just wondering.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Is that best practice?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Professor Lyons has said that it is fiddley. Has nobody come up with a solution for that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Professor Lyons. She said that there are currently 11 people in hospital. Typically how long does a hospital-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Have been hospitalised.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Okay, 11 people have been hospitalised. Typically, how long is a hospital stay?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Okay, but the HSE now has a facility for people to isolate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: Okay. What is the capacity of that facility?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)
Róisín Shortall: How many of those 11 people would have been in for other reasons apart from isolation?