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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: There was a bit of noise. I missed the first point Dr. Igoe made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Just the numbers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: That is surprising given the numbers are so low. I would have thought there would have been information on that. I want to move on to the membership of the strategic advisory group. There are 16 people on it, 15 of whom are doctors, along with one press and communications person. What is surprising is that there are no nurses on that advisory group. Why is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: No, I am not. I am referring to the membership of the strategic advisory group.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. Does Dr. Browne think it would it benefit from the presence of nurses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. I want to get back to the question of the number of doses that are available. As I said, I welcome the fact that people can now self-identify their risk. What happens then when the current availability runs out? The HSE is saying it has 6,000 doses, at best, at the moment, and that the target is up to 13,000. What happens then? When does the HSE expect that to happen in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: The HSE's estimate is that up to 13,000 people would benefit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I wish to return to the interim guidelines from September 2021 on the management of long Covid. Who was responsible for drawing those up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. What kind of specialties do those guidelines cover and what is the relative importance of each of those?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Would the witnesses accept that pulmonary complications have largely gone now as a result of the Omicron variant taking over and people being vaccinated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Arising from the events of the last year, a decision was taken to establish six long Covid clinics. What consultants are attached to those clinics? I refer to both the number and the specialty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: How many of those are there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. What other specialists are there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I am talking about the specific long Covid clinics. I am not talking about other services in the hospitals. Dr. Ní Bhriain says each clinic has an infectious diseases expert. What is the situation with cardiologists, for example?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Intellectual Property (18 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 160. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he supports extending the World Trade Organization decision of 17 June 2022 on the TRIPS agreement to cover intellectual property relating to Covid-19 treatments and diagnostic tests with no further conditions or changes to the text; and if he has responded to a correspondence concerning this matter from 18 NGOs. [51104/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (18 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 212 of 15 September 2022, the maximum spend permitted for Traveller accommodation in each of the years since 2020; if there is a ceiling on the funding that each local authority can draw down or any other budgetary restrictions since the allocation process was amended; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (18 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of all monies paid by each religious order under the residential institutions redress scheme and all monies still outstanding in each case in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52041/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (18 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of all monies paid by each religious order under the Ryan Report and all monies still outstanding in each case in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52042/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (18 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 507. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the situation facing old age pensioners who have lost their entitlement to fuel allowance, due to the fact that their adult children who are not in receipt of an qualifying payment have had to move back in with them due to the housing shortage; the steps that she intends to take to address...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (18 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 724. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a timeline that the working interdepartmental group established to review the report of the Special Oireachtas Joint Committee on International Surrogacy is working towards in completing its work; when he expects the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022 will reach Committee stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter....