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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: Which?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: The report or the policy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: This is a conversation that needs to be informed by the report. It was important to me that Mr. John Wall saw the report first. He was briefed on the report last week. I am going to talk to him later today and I want to make sure that he has had time to read the full report. If that is the case, then I will immediately ask the Department to release the report. I want to have exactly the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: Can I just, very briefly-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: -----just very briefly, then. I agree, and I will say that we can get into the detail on another day, but I am looking at short-term and more comprehensive longer-term actions, as well, in response to the point the Deputy just made.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: On the beds figure, the Deputy and I may just have to agree to disagree. The 1,100+ beds figure is one that relates to a commitment to have, by the end of next year, additional acute beds, over and above the fully-funded beds for this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: I am happy to look at documentation that says the opposite.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: I am quite sure that that is right, but we can go into it again if the Deputy so wishes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: I am quite sure that they were right. However, the Deputy has raised a very fair question on whether capital is being provided. There is over €1 billion in the capital in the budget for next year. It is €1,35,000,000. There is €900 million for construction and equipping, €120 million for ICT and e-health, and another €15 million for agencies, so the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: I will provide the Deputy with a detailed, up-to-date note on that issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: I am scribbling furiously. I am taking note of the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for his kind words. I agree with him wholeheartedly about the Department of Health, the HSE, HIQA and the other State agencies regarding the volume of work that the various organisations have to do and the fact that Covid probably doubles the work. The staff have not doubled. This has meant that in the Department, HSE, HIQA, HPSC, HPRA and across the board the same...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: We have been watching this with great interest. We are going to see where it goes. Other European countries are looking at scaling up rapid testing, be it molecular or antibody testing, quickly. What Slovakia is doing is interesting. The latest figures I have from public health officials suggest such tests, if they are done right and if the testing is good and the sensitivity and the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: I will have to take a look at that. I am not aware of the issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: A total of 1.95 million vaccinations were procured. This comprises 1.35 million for adults and 600,000 for children. The group being provided with it for free includes those aged between two and 12. I will get the committee a detailed note but, from memory, half of the nasal spray vaccinations for the children, some 300,000 in total, have been distributed. The remaining 300,000 are being...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: I am sorry but I do not know. A total of 950,000 doses have been distributed for adults. We assume everything that has been distributed has been administered because there is high demand. The remaining 400,000 have arrived in Ireland. There was a slowdown from the manufacturer but they are all here now and they are being distributed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: Australia essentially did not have a flu season.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)
Stephen Donnelly: I will ensure the committee gets information on both. At the moment NPHET is conducting a review. I have spoken with the CMO about visors. The unambiguous answer is to stop using them. They do not work. We have to use face coverings. More needs to be done, at a minimum on communications, in terms of how to wear face coverings.