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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I am not being funny but on what is that based if it has never been done?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: We are all grateful that we have not had to use it. Professor Mallon's submission refers to a "detailed end-to-end testing and contact tracing plan, embedded with rapid turnaround times and clear key performance indicators". That is not there. Is it on its way? When will we have that?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Experts tell us that testing capacity alone can be meaningless unless it is fast. South Korea views the speed of testing and tracing as important to prevent and suppress outbreaks. Its health officials have stated that testing needs to work not only for identification but also for isolation. To do this, it must be fast. According to Dr. Tomás Ryan, the science shows that if this is...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Does Professor Mallon think we are ready?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: If we do not have the necessary plan in place, should we be opening up at the rate we are? Should we not wait for the plan before doing so? I have my own view on this but I am asking for Professor Mallon's view as an expert in the area.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: If we open up our airports and open the country up to travel, that obviously will increase the risks. Do we need to be scaling up on testing on a much quicker basis if we are going to be accepting people coming in as tourism and everything else restarts?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: At the moment, we have very low numbers of people arriving through the airports. I know this because Dublin Airport is in my constituency. Those numbers are likely to increase soon but even at the current low level of incoming people, we are not getting things right. I heard Cáit O'Riordan on the radio the weekend before last talking about how when she came home from America and...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Professor Mallon.

Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (30 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: We will share our time ten minutes with five minutes apiece. Within the confines of my ten minutes, I wish to allow a minute or two for the Minister to respond, if that is okay. Like others, I will take the opportunity to wish him the very best in his new role. It is a great honour not just for him, but for his family and friends, to serve as the head of the health services for the...

Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (30 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: That is fair enough.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will amend the summer provision programme to allow children transitioning to mainstream schools from an early years setting that have a diagnosis as laid out in the guidance document to avail of the programme and receive support from a tutor in the same way a child transitioning to a special school or class; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason she will not allow those children transitioning to a mainstream school that have a diagnosis as laid out in the document to participate in the summer provision programme (details supplied). [13118/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child (details supplied) cannot qualify for the new expanded home-based July summer provision programme despite having severe emotional and behavioural difficulties; if there is a way by which their parents can get them accepted onto the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13359/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if parents that hire tutors and teachers to carry out and deliver services under the July and summer provision programme to allow their child transitioning into a mainstream school will qualify for reimbursement from her Department for costs. [13687/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if parents that hire tutors and teachers to carry out and deliver services under the July and summer provision programme for their child due to the fact that her Department is failing to fully carry out the summer provision programme will qualify for reimbursement from her Department for costs. [13688/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have signed up July and summer provision programme to date. [13689/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason her Department has excluded every child transitioning to mainstream schooling regardless of their diagnosis from accessing the July and summer provision programme. [13690/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (30 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will work with third-level universities to expand the number of medical training places for students applying through the Central Applications Office system to help increase the number of doctors nationally. [13190/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Chronic Disease Management Programme (30 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 390. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 572 of 16 June 2020, the way in which the chronic disease management programme will be rolled out over the next three years to 2023; the categories of patients that will be added to those already commenced in the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12773/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 397. To ask the Minister for Health if nursing home staff being tested for Covid-19 will have their results relayed to them directly and not to their managers, in view of the fact that this was the case previously when there was mass testing of nursing home staff. [12811/20]