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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: There is value in it for nursing homes, given the impact that people having the virus has. The next speaker is from Sinn Féin.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Sorry, Mr. Reid. Your microphone-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: The Deputy has two minutes.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Yes, that is fine. The next speaker is from Fine Gael. I call Deputy O'Dowd.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I thank Deputy O'Dowd and call Deputy McAuliffe.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I thank Deputy O'Reilly. We will move on now to the next speaker.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: The next speaker is Deputy Murnane O'Connor, followed by Deputy Durkan.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Thank you, Deputy. I must bring in two more speakers, including one of your party colleagues who is anxious to speak. I first call Deputy Durkan.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I have a couple of questions. Further to my previous question to Dr. Cuddihy about what is classified as a Covid death, if somebody is admitted to a hospital with a broken leg, for example, requires hospitalisation and is asymptomatic but tests positive for Covid-19, is that person included among the statistics for those in hospital with Covid?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Even though the reason the person was admitted may not have been Covid - he or she may have been admitted with a broken leg, a heart attack or something else unrelated to Covid - he or she is classified as being in hospital with Covid and included in the statistics for those who are hospitalised with Covid.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: They are the statistics that are relayed at the daily press conferences.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: On 27 February, Dr. Margaret Harris of the WHO was on RTÉ Television and said spare testing capacity in terms of staff and resources would be key. That was seven months ago. I have a lot of sympathy for the HSE because it has to work with the resources available to it. It is a bit like the loaves and fishes but perhaps without the divine capabilities that were demonstrated. Does Mr....

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I understand that the patient would have to be isolated from the main body of patients.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: May I give Mr. Reid one example? I am aware of it because it is very close to me. The previous Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, accepted that the overcrowding levels at University Hospital Limerick would be unsustainable and that greater use would have to be made of the tier 2 hospitals - Nenagh General Hospital, St. John's Hospital in Limerick and Ennis General Hospital - to avoid...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Will the Arena continue through the winter?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: As we head into the 'flu season, it will come to an end. I apologise. I cut Ms O'Connor short.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Are there any plans to increase the capacity of the medical assessment units in Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's hospitals?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: I wish everyone in the HSE the very best of luck as we, as a State, try to deal with this together. Obviously, everything has not been perfect. Nothing ever is. I commend the witnesses, however, on the enormous work they and their staff have carried out on behalf of the citizens of the State over the past six months. The committee agreed earlier that it will go to the Dáil to seek...

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: Like a number of previous speakers, the constituency I represent has quite a lot of forestry. I believe that Clare is one of the most afforested counties given the proportion of the county and the size of forestry there. I have invited the Minister to my home town of Scarriff to see Sliabh Aughty, to which I have not yet received a reply. I look forward to the courtesy of a reply. One can...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Correspondence (30 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance when a person (details supplied) will receive a reply to a pensions and taxes query submitted in August 2020 and again on 3 September 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27404/20]