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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Update (29 Jan 2021)

Martin Conway: Is Mr. Thompson is confident that the ICT system having to catch up will not compromise the data or create any errors? Is he confident that everything is in sync, to the greatest extent possible, in respect of the safety of patients' records?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Update (29 Jan 2021)

Martin Conway: My final question, because I am conscious of time, concerns communication. Work has to be done on the communication. Who on the team is in charge of communicating with the public?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Update (29 Jan 2021)

Martin Conway: My point is that there needs to be one person dealing with the communication, who would become the public face of the vaccination programme and who would go before the media, daily if necessary. Ms Headon is correct that the information has to be accurate but, unfortunately, we live in a world of social media, where information has to be provided quickly as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: I welcome our guests and commend them on the work they are doing during this pandemic. I will ask first about the 193 outbreaks that were identified in nursing homes, as of yesterday. Has the HSE done any tracing in terms of those outbreaks? What percentage of them is a result of community-based transmission and what percentage is a result of infection in acute hospitals? Has any research...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: That coheres with the message that community transmission ends up in nursing homes, whether we like it or not. The Covid-related temporary assistance payment scheme was set up to support nursing homes. How much has been paid out through that scheme to the private nursing homes to date?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: That is a total of just under €170 million. When the first wave of the pandemic hit us, PPE and so on were the big issues for the 400 members of Mr. Daly's organisation. Was that €170 million enough to ensure that Nursing Homes Ireland could cover its Covid requirements in terms of the range of services it provides, PPE and so on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: Since that scheme was put in place, have there been any asks from Nursing Homes Ireland that were not granted and that would have reduced the number of cases or fatalities among its 400 members?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: I think everybody present is glad to hear that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 in Nursing Homes (2 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: I will ask one more question, if I may. Mr. Daly wanted his organisation to be represented on NPHET. What is its relationship with NPHET like at the moment? Does it have a relationship with NPHET? Mr. Daly made a very strong case in the media that private nursing homes should be represented on NPHET.

Seanad: Special Education Provision: Statements (8 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: In the first instance, I too welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, to the House and I acknowledge the work she has done. The narrative and the media coverage up to just after Christmas was about the leaving certificate. Up to that point, the only person focused on special needs education and the need to get these young people back to school was the Minister of State, Deputy...

Seanad: Free Provision of Period Products Bill 2021: Second Stage (8 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: I welcome the Bill to the House and commend Senator Clifford-Lee on tabling it. As a matter of fact, it was not long after the Senator was elected to the House in 2017 that she spoke on this issue and highlighted it. It is good to see that Bills are finally coming to the House on such an important issue. The motions that came before the Seanad and the Dáil in 2019 set the agenda. In...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: During the pandemic, we have seen the important role that local media has played in keeping communities connected and giving them valuable, useful and correct information, and none more so than local newspapers throughout the country. It is appropriate that the Government would provide financial assistance to help local newspapers during this difficult time for them. However, that requires...

Seanad: Mental Health and Covid-19: Statements (12 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: I am sharing half my time with Senator Seery Kearney. I welcome the Minister of State back to the House. I wish her well in what is an absolutely daunting challenge, particularly in the area of mental health. It is daunting because successive governments from all sides failed to invest incrementally over the years in mental health services. As such, the Minister of State has taken over an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: A Regulatory Framework for Adult Safeguarding: Law Reform Commission (16 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: I apologise for the delay. I was trying new headphones but clearly they did not work. I thank Ms Justice Laffoy and her colleagues on the LRC for attending the meeting. I must commend them on the body of work they have done. The report, of which I received a copy yesterday, is very comprehensive and certainly is a very good starting point for what is a critical issue. Looking through the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: A Regulatory Framework for Adult Safeguarding: Law Reform Commission (16 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: Drilling into the 10,000 cases that the commission has come across, what it basing that dramatic figure on? Within that 10,000, there is probably significant abuse and very serious abuse, and then abuse at a lower level. Of course, abuse is abuse. I would like some additional information on how that figure was arrived at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: A Regulatory Framework for Adult Safeguarding: Law Reform Commission (16 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: On the question I asked about international best practice, was there anywhere in particular that struck the commission?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: I am most disappointed that the issue of special needs education seems to have fallen down the pecking order again in terms of priority. It is great that some classes are coming back in a week's time but no classes should be coming back ahead of those containing special needs students. Every student with special needs should be back at least at the same time as the first classes that...

Seanad: Student Nurses (Pay) Bill 2021: Second Stage (19 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: I thank Senator Hoey for tabling this Bill. Given the Senator's years of dedication to student politics with the Union of Students in Ireland, it is appropriate that it would be a students' pay Bill she would bring to the House as, hopefully, the first of many Bills she will bring to the Houses of the Oireachtas.I also welcome the Minister to the House. He is doing a very difficult job. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vitamin D and Covid-19: Covit-D Consortium (23 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: Senator Black has stolen my thunder as I was going to ask about the over-intake of vitamin D. My first question relates to countries with the same type of profile as Ireland in terms of a lack of fish in the diet and so on. Are there any similar countries doing it better in terms of public health interventions around vitamin D? Is there anywhere we can learn lessons from and possibly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vitamin D and Covid-19: Covit-D Consortium (23 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: Professor Kenny is saying NPHET's response was to ask HIQA to do a fast-track report on the benefits of vitamin D from a Covid perspective.