Results 14,361-14,380 of 18,851 for speaker:Fergus O'Dowd

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Value Added Tax (15 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) regarding the reduction or removal of VAT on medical grade masks for the term of the Covid-19 pandemic will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16150/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 44. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if matters raised correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to supports for the tourism sector during the Covid-19 pandemic will be addressed.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16427/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (16 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address correspondence from a person (details supplied) in relation to commuter travel post Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16385/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Emergency Services (16 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 101. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) regarding a proposed landing strip for emergency medical flights will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16454/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: I support all the speakers I have heard. We agree absolutely that we are in an appalling and unacceptable situation, not just for the families and their support but also for the people who actually have the disabilities such as autism and all other diagnoses and multiple diagnoses. In many cases these disabilities leave them with a very poor quality of life and the families are also really...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome our witnesses. I acknowledge the excellent work that has been done by the HSE and its staff, both administratively and medically. They have given huge support to people. The public perception of the HSE has changed significantly as a result of the way in which it has responded to the crisis. Its interventions in places such as Dealgan House nursing home in Dundalk have been...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome those responses. The HSE will spend €1 billion this year on PPE. What is the expected cost of PPE to the private nursing home sector and is the HSE charging the sector for its use of PPE?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: The standard is being provided when it is needed but people are paying €50,000 or €60,000 per year for their care in many of these homes. I agree on the medical issue and the need to provide PPE when nursing homes do not have it. However, the HSE should be charging the private nursing home sector for PPE because these homes are certainly charging their residents. I am unhappy...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: My experience is the opposite to what Ms McArdle just said. I do not accept that the number relating to the waiting list is not known. I do not mean it is not known to Ms McArdle personally. The waiting list has been growing significantly and the HSE has refused to supply to me the information I sought on the communications between CHO directors and the HSE head director of services for...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank Ms McArdle for her reply. I am trying to understand how the money is given out through the CHO areas. It seems that in the area I live in, which is CHO 8, people in receipt of home care had to die before there were hours available for allocation to somebody else. This is unacceptable. I understand that the "recycling of hours", which, I understand, is the administrative term for...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: I would welcome a note but that is not much of an answer.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: I looked for data for the most recent projected period in 2019 and it was refused to me. I will tell the Chairman the full story.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: The key point is that the HSE refused to give me the data even though there was no bar to giving them to me. That is what is wrong with the agency.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: I will await the data with bated breath.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (21 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if concerns on driver theory test delays raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17230/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (21 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 734. To ask the Minister for Health the alternatives to medication, such as support interventions, including duration of service offered to children with ADHD or their parents in each CHO area if different approaches and services exist. [17184/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (21 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 735. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time in each CHO area from referral to assessment for children with queried ADHD. [17185/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (21 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 736. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in each CHO area referred for queried ADHD in each year since 2016. [17186/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (21 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 748. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists registered under the dental treatment services scheme by county monthly from January 2020 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17301/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: Fáiltím roimh na finnéithe. Tá jab an-mhaith déanta ag na daoine atá ag obair sa health service an t-am go léir. I have a question about the flu vaccine in preparation for the possibility of an outbreak of flu and the return of Covid-19. Do the witnesses' organisations have a policy on mandatory flu vaccination of all healthcare staff?