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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: 734. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment of new staff and the expansion of the medical assessment unit at Ennis hospital; the details of any expansion of services; if consideration will be given by his Department and the HSE for a further expansion of services provided at the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11070/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Public Health Emergency Team (3 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: 735. To ask the Minister for Health the details of expenses claimed by members of NPHET since its first meeting was convened on 6 March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11071/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: 884. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that practice nurses are being paid per vaccination or per hour to administer Covid-19 vaccines; the amount general practitioners and other doctors are being paid per vaccination or per hour to administer Covid-19 vaccines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11645/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: 885. To ask the Minister for Health if it is planned to have Covid-19 vaccines administered by dentists, pharmacists or other medical professionals; if so, the amount it is planned to pay them per vaccination or per hour to administer Covid-19 vaccines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11646/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services (3 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: 975. To ask the Minister for Health when the area of counselling and psychotherapy will be fully regulated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11986/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: The only announcement of new flight routes out of Ireland for the past 12 months have been out of Northern Ireland. Today, eight new routes were announced out of Belfast City Airport by Ryanair, which, along with Aer Lingus, has largely moved its operations out of this jurisdiction. In this State, we have had only base closures and flight route cancellations. Is any of this ringing alarm...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: I am talking about legislation in this State, from this Government.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: I will start by going back in time a little and examining how we came to this point. I will go back ten years to be precise to a Government that had taken power in a slightly different economic situation but one that I fear is about to be revisited. I supported not all but many of the difficult decisions taken by that Government. The Minister was critical of the 2011-2016 Government,...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: 344. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if supports are available or will be provided for businesses (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12844/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates (10 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: 880. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a primary medical certificate application by persons (details supplied) in County Clare; when an assessment on this application will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13037/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: 992. To ask the Minister for Health if there is an explanation for the extraordinarily high incidence of Covid placentitis of which there were eleven cases reported worldwide up to November 2020 and four suspected cases in Ireland announced on 4 March 2021; and if he will provide any such explanation. [13514/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: 993. To ask the Minister for Health if the four stillbirths in Ireland suspected to be linked to Covid placentitis were recorded as Covid-19 related deaths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13515/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (10 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: 1023. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will prioritise making equine herpes a notifiable disease in light of an outbreak of EHV-1 in Valencia, the most serious outbreak in Europe for decades and the imminent possibility of the virus arriving in the State with horses being transported from Spain; and if so, when. [13134/21]

Young People and Access to Further and Higher Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: I wish to raise a couple of points. I thank People Before Profit for the motion and facilitating this timely debate. With regard to universal access to third level education, I do not have a problem with thatper sebut we need to be cognisant of what is possible. I studied briefly in Belgium - most of my studies were brief – where everybody could go on to third level education....

Young People and Access to Further and Higher Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: "Hands" was the name of the programme.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (11 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: 245. To ask the Minister for Health if the additional intern jobs created in 2020 which allowed every graduating doctor the chance to stay and work in Ireland are being discontinued in respect of the 2021 cohort of interns as a result of which the vast majority of international graduating doctors will be forced to leave Ireland to work as doctors. [13827/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Veterinary Medicines: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: I meant to indicate that I wish to speak later in the meeting. I have a question on the legislation and the legislative regime.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Veterinary Medicines: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: Is there any appetite among the experts to return to the previous regime, with proper training? I appreciate there is a legal difficulty regarding the possibility of retrospective legislation, or statutory instruments that are retrospective, and whether that would comply with the EU regulation is not entirely clear. Is it absolutely necessary that vets prescribe, not from a legal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Veterinary Medicines: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: To be clear, I am not asking Mr. Geraghty to comment on the reality of it. My question is whether, from a practical perspective, he thinks it is necessary from the perspective of achieving the objective of reducing overuse of medicines and ensuring there is not antimicrobial or antibiotic resistance. Vets drove this, although I am not suggesting any mala fides. It was the thinking at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Veterinary Medicines: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Michael McNamara: Antiparasitics.