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Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (20 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As the procurement of medical equipment is a matter for the Health Service Executive (HSE), I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (20 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of public healthcare infrastructure projects, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The EMA has received an application for conditional marketing authorisation (CMA) for a COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. The assessment of the vaccine will proceed under an accelerated timeline. An opinion on the marketing authorisation could be issued by 29 January provided, subject to the data submitted being deemed sufficiently robust to demonstrate the on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

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: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, and the need to plan appropriately, a sub-group of the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) was established to provide advice and expertise in the area of epidemiological modelling. The objective of the group is to expand the statistical and mathematical modelling capacity available to NPHET, critically reviewing the emerging research,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (20 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I support the provision of PPE to dentists who are contracted under the Dental Treatment Services Scheme to provide services to medical card holders. I have asked my officials to engage with their counterparts in the HSE on this matter.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Ireland is participating in a Procurement Exercise being operated by the European Commission on behalf of Member States to procure suitable, safe and effective vaccines, in sufficient quantities, to combat COVID-19. Six APAs have been negotiated by the Commission under this process to date. Government approval has been obtained to opt-into a sixth, but this is conditional on certain trial...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Jan 2021)

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: Hospital Staff (20 Jan 2021)

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 Car Parks (20 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The Programme for Governmentmakes a commitment to introduce a cap on the maximum daily charge for patients and visitors at all public hospitals where possible, and to introduce flexible passes in all public hospitals for patients and their families. My Department and the HSE are currently engaging on this issue.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Public Health Emergency Team (20 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Central to the evolution of NPHET processes is the recognition that health and social care services, and indeed the wider cross-government COVID-19 response, have to become embedded and ‘mainstreamed’ in the usual operational response of organisations, as society adapts to the reality of living for the foreseeable future in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In July 2020, as...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I am sharing time. I will take the first ten minutes approximately. It is now a year since the World Health Organization declared the prevalence of Covid-19 to be a public emergency of international concern. Since that day, we have found ourselves living lives very different from those we may have expected or hoped for previously. Case numbers, people hospitalised and, most regrettable...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I thought I was sharing with Deputy Devlin. Is he not here?

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I will leave it at that.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. I am personally aware of three hospitals that I have had queries about: the Coombe Hospital, the Rotunda Hospital and a situation in County Kerry. On the Coombe, I spoke to the chair of the board last night who told me they are conducting a review. I believe they are hiring senior counsel. They want to establish all the facts. They have found out more since the...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I will provide for everyone whatever schedule I can at the end of this session. Broadly, we have had so far slightly more than 40,000 per week from Pfizer and low numbers to begin with from Moderna. The schedule I have seen shows they are coming in every two weeks. The good-----

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The initial shipment from Moderna was 4,000 or 6,000. I will get the Deputy a note on it. That ramps up. That good news is on Pfizer. The Deputy will be aware that the allocation was based on getting five doses from the vial. They arrive in trays and there is a certain number of vials per tray. It turns out that if it is done right with the right type of syringes and the vaccinators are...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The advance purchase with AstraZeneca is for 3.3 million doses. I agree wholeheartedly with the Deputy that it is a game changer. Because of the temperatures, we can get it straight out to GPs, pharmacies and potentially others. The quarter 1 volume is approximately 600,000 doses. It is a two-dose regime, so that will be about 300,000 people. At present, the advance purchase agreement,...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I agree wholeheartedly with the Deputy's ambition. It is exactly in line with what we are trying to do, namely, to get in as much vaccine as possible as early as possible and get it into people's arms straight away. That was what was agreed with the EU. The EU bought as much as it could. Every member state gets a per capitaamount, so we get 1.11% of the total amount the EU could get. It...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I have raised the Deputy's concern about the email address with the officials and asked that the response time be made shorter. On the issue of carers, I asked for a clinical judgment from the HSE, which I got in the past 48 hours, and it is as follows. Carers who work in the formal sector, that is, those who work for the HSE or for one of the private caring companies, are included in...