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

Seán Crowe: Ten minutes.

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

Seán Crowe: Ms Caulfield, you have the floor, but your microphone appears to be on mute. Is it on mute?

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

Seán Crowe: Yes, so perhaps Dr. Mulligan can continue.

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

Seán Crowe: Ms Caulfield, can you come in?

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

Seán Crowe: Deputy Shortall is next. I apologise for the IT system. We are having difficulty and we cannot see the Deputy on the screen. It is probably something we will try to examine again next week.

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

Seán Crowe: Yes, loud and clear.

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

Seán Crowe: The system seems to have collapsed. I ask the committee to bear with us. As we have been unable to re-establish contact, I will adjourn the meeting. The committee will meet in public session next Tuesday, 23 February 2021 at 10 a.m., when we will hear of the emerging evidence that vitamin D may reduce the severity of Covid-19 infection. We will have representatives from Trinity College...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (17 Feb 2021)

Seán Crowe: 640. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to a person (details supplied) who has been referred to primary care psychology services in the Tallaght south area, only to receive a subsequent letter from the HSE informing them that there are no such services in the area. [7883/21]

Covid-19 (Drug and Alcohol Services, and Homelessness): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

Seán Crowe: I do not recognise the system the Ministers of State have described this morning. It is not my experience, particularly with regard to the wraparound supports that are supposedly available to those with problematic substance use who have become homeless. I say this not to score points but with the hope that the Ministers of State will move beyond the rhetoric and look at the real challenges...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (23 Feb 2021)

Seán Crowe: Good morning. Apologies have been received from Deputies Colm Burke and Neasa Hourigan. We have one piece of housekeeping before I bring in the witnesses. Can I take it that the draft minutes of the previous public joint committee meeting of Tuesday, 16 February 2021, are agreed? Agreed.

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

Seán Crowe: I welcome the witnesses, who are here to give a briefing on the emerging evidence on the role of vitamin D in reducing the severity of Covid-19 and as a measure to improve general public health. From the Covit-D Consortium I welcome Professor Rose Anne Kenny, Professor James Bernard Walsh, Dr. John Faul, Dr. Martin Healy and Dr. Daniel McCartney. Before we hear the opening statements, I...

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

Seán Crowe: Thank you. As members are attending virtually from their offices and, therefore, cannot see the clock to monitor their speaking time, I will try to advise them when they have a minute remaining. I ask them to stick to their time allocations to facilitate all members' participation in the meeting. It is a difficult meeting to manage so members should bear with me if I cut across people who...

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

Seán Crowe: Who wishes to answer?

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

Seán Crowe: We have come to the end of Deputy Gino Kenny's slot.

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

Seán Crowe: Okay, one more response.

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

Seán Crowe: Has Senator Kyne concluded? He has run out of time.

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

Seán Crowe: Deputy Shortall is looking to come in.

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

Seán Crowe: The main ask of the witnesses is that there would be explicit and prominent public health messaging from the Department of Health and the HSE urging people to take higher doses of vitamin D supplements in consultation with their GPs, particularly if they are in the at-risk groups. The witnesses are saying there is no real downside to taking vitamin D. They are also asking for the opt-out...

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

Seán Crowe: I thank Dr. McCartney very much. For safety reasons we must now bring to an end our committee meeting today. I thank everybody for their contributions. I give a commitment that we will follow up on many of the issues that they have raised here today with the various people who will be appearing before the committee itself. That concludes our business for today and the committee will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Feb 2021)

Seán Crowe: 929. To ask the Minister for Health if a company (details supplied) will be involved in the vaccination roll-out process; if so, if the contract went through the public tendering programme; and the specific responsibilities and roles the company will have. [10035/21]