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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Yes, that was an error. It will be two ten-minute slots.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Dr. Kelleher and Deputy McAuliffe.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Deputy Shanahan and call Deputy Michael Collins.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I call Deputy O'Reilly, who has ten minutes.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Deputy O'Reilly and Dr. Kelleher. The next speaker is Deputy Colm Burke.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Is Deputy Colm Burke going to take ten minutes? Is he the final Fine Gael speaker?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: The Deputy has ten minutes and if another Fine Gael Deputy wishes to come in, we have time.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: To be clear, is Dr. Sisson saying that of the 8,000 who had Covid that were identified as healthcare workers, 5,000 of them were working in the healthcare service at that time?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Okay, public as opposed to potentially working in private hospitals.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Does the definition Dr. Sisson just gave reflect what Dr. Cuddihy meant when he said Ireland had a different definition of healthcare workers from other countries? I was struck by that comment earlier.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Do we know what determines who contracts Covid-19 and who does not contract it? Two people can have the same exposure, and one may contract it while the other may not. Does fatigue and being run down play a role in viruses generally and in this virus, to the extent that we have information about this virus?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Does Dr. Kelleher think that that tendency of Irish healthcare workers to come into work, sick or not, because of the sense of duty they have to their patients has been overly relied on by the HSE in calculating staffing ratios and staffing numbers required?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Dr. Kelleher. We have had a number of campaigns in relatively recent years about this. I was previously a TD from 2011 to 2016 and during that time there was a campaign by the younger doctors' division of the IMO, which I think was called "24 No More", and nothing happened. I was contacted by an Irish GP trainee who posted on social media and I think I was tagged in it. She said:...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Earlier, Dr. Kelleher mentioned absenteeism during the flu season. Perhaps that rate of absenteeism needs to be greater. Typically, what percentage of the Irish population gets the flu and how many people are hospitalised for it during the flu season?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Is Dr. Kelleher saying that 5,000 or 6,000 people could have the flu in any given week?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: On the issue of a robust immunisation campaign, Mr. McCallion came before the committee last Friday and he told us there is to be a ramping up of the immunisation campaign, and that there will be free immunisation of children aged between two and 12 years. Earlier, Dr. Kelleher mentioned children being super spreaders. In any event, there will be free vaccinations for children aged between...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Does Dr. Kelleher have a view he would care to proffer on the advantage or otherwise of a generalised vaccination programme?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I have to say I am somewhat surprised when I look at the WHO guidance on wearing masks, which is, of course, that masks should be worn in a medical setting, particularly when dealing with persons with Covid-19. Its advice on masks in the general population is still equivocal.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: We had two members of NPHET before the committee on, I understand, 9 June. Their advice at the time was equivocal, but the advice in Ireland has changed since and masks are now mandatory in a public transport or any confined transport setting and their wearing is advised in indoor settings. Why is the advice of the WHO still so equivocal?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Dr. Kelleher is heading up the expert advisory group on nursing homes.