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

Colm Burke: Of the 160?

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

Colm Burke: Has there been any response from the Department on that matter?

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

Colm Burke: On the SpRs, is it in all categories?

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

Colm Burke: In what areas are the SpRs qualified?

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

Colm Burke: I thank all the witnesses present today for taking the time to be here and for the work they have done over the past four months. I will ask four questions because other members want to get in. First, what is the current advice on the wearing of masks to all staff working in hospitals? Are they required to wear masks at all times within the hospital premises? Second, according to the IMO...

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

Colm Burke: From this morning's session I understand that people who have completed their training in the past two months have not been offered contracts other than for locum work. There is no forward planning with regard to their full-time employment as consultants in any area.

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

Colm Burke: Care assistants, cleaning staff, nurses and doctors are not required to wear them when working on a ward.

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

Colm Burke: There appears to be some confusion about the requirements in some hospitals. People who are visiting hospitals and wearing masks arrive to find that not all staff are wearing masks. I have got a number of phone calls from different areas of Cork on that matter. Can that be clarified?

Health (Amendment) (Professional Home Care) Bill 2020: First Stage (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the regulation of professional home care, for that purpose to amend the Health Act 2007 and to provide for related matters. The Law Reform Commission produced a report in December 2011 recommending that a legislative framework be put in place relating to people who provide home care. It also recommended...

Health (Amendment) (Professional Home Care) Bill 2020: First Stage (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: Yes.

Health (Amendment) (Professional Home Care) Bill 2020: First Stage (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: 430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an additional school bus will be provided for the 42 children in the Watergrasshill, County Cork, catchment area who have to travel to a secondary school in Fermoy, County Cork, in view of the fact that the secondary school in their catchment area does not have the capacity to accommodate them; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Deaths (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: 444. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an immediate review will be carried out of the registration of deaths to reduce the time period for registration of deaths in order to provide more accurate information in a timely manner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17321/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Jul 2020)

Colm Burke: 750. To ask the Minister for Health if a social media campaign on Covid-19 specifically aimed at young persons will be designed and implemented by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17318/20]

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

Colm Burke: I thank all the speakers this morning for all the submissions they already have made and for the work that has been done over the last four months in particular. I wish to raise an issue from the HSE report about the breakdown of healthcare workers. One of the concerning figures is of the 8,260 workers - it is now up slightly from 8,260 - some 2,878 of those identified with Covid-19 had...

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

Colm Burke: The figure of 2,878 is quite high. Is Mr. Donnelly aware of whether some of those people had requested not to be assigned to the particular roles they were asked to take on?

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

Colm Burke: I am aware of two or three cases where someone who had been through treatment for cancer had returned to work in the HSE, yet was required to work on the front line. Did the witnesses come across cases of people who had medical conditions and clearly indicated to management that it was inappropriate for them to be on the front line, but management ignored their requests to be assigned to...

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

Colm Burke: Where did the policy come from? Did it come from HSE management or the Department of Health?

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

Colm Burke: I will move on to the wearing of face masks. I received quite a number of emails at a very early stage from people on the front line who wanted to wear face masks, but it appears that a decision was taken at a local level, by individual medical units, nursing homes or whatever, that masks were not required. Did the witnesses hear from people who had made requests that those in charge of a...

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

Colm Burke: I will move on to consider how we go forward. Over the nearly six years from December 2014 to now, the number of people working full-time in the HSE, whole-time equivalents, has gone from 103,000 to 123,000, which is an increase of 20,000 staff members. That increase obviously applies across all areas, including management, administration, care assistants, nurses and doctors. Where should...