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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1354 and 1469 together. Lack of appropriate ventilation within healthcare settings has been associated with increased rates of infection with airborne diseases. Similarly, inadequate ventilation in nonhealthcare settings has been shown as a contributing factor in outbreaks of highly infectious airborne diseases like measles and TB. COVID-19 is a new disease,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: On Tuesday 15 September the Government published ‘Resilience and Recovery 2020-2021: Plan for Living with COVID-19’. This Plan outlines our medium-term strategy for COVID-19 and sets out a Framework of 5 Levels which outline the broad measures which will apply depending on the level of the virus at any given time. The Plan is designed to help everyone – individuals,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of public healthcare infrastructure projects, they have advised that the HSE has agreed to purchase the site comprising 5.09 acres at Diocesan lands located near the Turnpike in Ennis, Co. Clare for the new 100-bed Community Nursing Unit. (CNU) The project will see a new facility providing a 100-bed HIQA compliant CNU for long...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: Health services are provided either by directly-employed HSE staff or by voluntary and private providers who have formal tender arrangements with the HSE to deliver the services. Due to the strain on existing HSE HR resources to meet the COVID- 19 challenge, the HSE are being supported by an employment agency in increasing the available workforce for a short-term period during the Covid-19...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Government has expanded the provision of seasonal influenza vaccination without charge to all of those in the HSE-defined at-risk groups, including healthcare workers, and to all children aged from 2 to 12 years. Vaccines are being administered via GPs and pharmacists, as in previous years. This season, 1.95 million doses of influenza vaccine have been purchased, which is double the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Parking Charges (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Access (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to examine the issues raised and to respond to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Deputy is aware, following reports of a planned merger of the midwifery led unit and consultant led services at Cavan General Hospital, the previous Minister requested that a review be undertaken. My Department has recently been advised by the HSE's Chief Clinical Officer that the RCSI Hospital Group has undertaken an initial assessment of the Cavan midwifery led unit. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The primary concern of the Minister for Health is to ensure the continuity of supports and services for people with disabilities and their families. As the Deputy will be aware, specialist disability services are provided by a range of organisations. In some cases the HSE itself delivers these services directly and in other circumstances, the HSE relies upon funded providers to deliver these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: It is recognised that waiting times for scheduled appointments and procedures have been impacted as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic the HSE had to take measures to defer most scheduled care activity in March, April, and May of this year. This was to ensure patient safety and that all appropriate resources were made available for Covid-19...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The modelling work carried out by the modelling sub-group (IEMAG) of NPHET supports risk assessment and public health recommendations.Statistical and modelling approaches have significant and important limitations and these limitations are well understood by NPHET and key decision makers. The models used by IEMAG provided possible scenarios showing what might happen if the trends at...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The restrictions imposed on movement and events are consistent with legal advice for a proportionate response to an unprecedented situation. The public health measures asking people to stay at home, and the regulations in this area, were aimed at breaking the chain of infection in the community. The section of the SI 448 of 2020 the question refers to, relates to a reasonable excuse to leave...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (3 Nov 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Programme for Government, Our Shared Future, commits to continuing investment in our health care services in line with the recommendations of the Health Service Capacity Review and the commitments in Project Ireland 2040. The Health Service Capacity Review 2018 found that the net requirement in combination with health system reform is for an additional 2,590 hospital beds by 2031 (2,100...