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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Feb 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 has also indicated its intention to procure additional vaccine supplies from Valneva and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Feb 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: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Feb 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The Government has taken decisive steps to limit the importation of variants of concern. A regime of mandatory home quarantine is currently in operation. Arriving passengers are required to present a COVID-19 passenger locator form and evidence of a negative pre-departure RT-PCR test taken no more than 72 hours before travel. Visa free travel from South America countries has been suspended. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Feb 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 335 and 336 together. The Government has taken decisive steps to limit the importation of variants of concern. A regime of mandatory home quarantine is currently in operation. Arriving passengers are required to present a COVID-19 passenger locator form and evidence of a negative pre-departure RT-PCR test taken no more than 72 hours before travel. Passengers...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Feb 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Ireland is working as part of the EU to secure a safe and stable supply of Covid-19 vaccinations and expects to receive a total of 1.25 million doses of the three currently approved vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and AstraZeneca) before end March 2021. Ireland is currently above the EU average with about 2.6% of our population fully vaccinated and 6.9 doses administered per 100 of our...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Feb 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The immunisation programme in Ireland is based on the advice of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC). The committee's recommendations are based on the prevalence of the relevant disease in Ireland and international best practice in relation to immunisation. It makes recommendations on vaccination policy to my Department. The NIAC review all data relating to COVID-19 vaccines on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Feb 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: Covid 19 vaccines can only be approved and used if they comply with all the requirements of quality, safety and efficacy set out in the EU pharmaceutical legislation. No vaccine will be used until Market authorisation from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is obtained and any authorised vaccine will be subject to ongoing monitoring in Ireland by the Health Product Regulatory Authority...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Feb 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 340 to 342, inclusive, together. Under S.I 44 of 2021, arrivals to Ireland from overseas are required to have evidence of a negative / not-detected result from a PCR test taken no more than 72 hours before arrival to the State. S.I. 44 of 2021 places obligations on carriers to take reasonable steps to inform passengers of the test requirement, to check for the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Feb 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: All passengers arriving to the State are required to complete a COVID-19 Passenger Locator form, there are limited exemptions from this requirement for international transport workers, diplomats and children under 16. The form is used to support a system of engagements with arriving passengers including the targeting of public health messaging by SMS and email and may be used for contact...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Feb 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 344 and 345 together. A number of non-competitive contracts were required to be implemented as a direct response to the Covid-19 pandemic. EU Directives provide legitimate reasons for awarding contracts non-competitively, such as extreme urgency brought about by unforeseeable events. Details of all contracts awarded by my Department during 2020 that exceed a...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I welcome the opportunity to present the Health (Amendment) Bill to the House. The Bill provides for mandatory quarantine at a designated facility for passengers arriving from designated category 2 countries and for those who arrive in breach of the pre-departure negative polymerase chain reaction, PCR, test requirement. We can all see the impact of the Covid pandemic, one year now after...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank all Senators for their contributions. I am delighted to be back. The debate in this House is excellent. I thank Senators for their kind words and for the debate. This legislation is no joke. I agree with various Senators who said they would never normally support legislation like this. I would never normally support legislation like this. This is emergency legislation and one...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank my colleagues for all their contributions. It is an important and healthy debate and long may we continue to have it. Nobody has all of the answers. The Government does not have all of the answers, nor is there a government anywhere in all of the world that does. It is essential we have a debate and that we listen to each other because we are ultimately trying to achieve the same...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I ask colleagues to think about that. If zero Covid is not the answer, and I do not think it is, why are we doing what we are doing? The advice I have from the Attorney General is that this must have a proportionality test because it is about depriving people of their liberty for two weeks in a designated facility, which is a very serious thing to do. There needs to be a proportionality...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: It looks right across. It is not fair to charge our Chief Medical Officer with playing favourites when it comes to giving advice on category 2 countries. In respect of the position of Sinn Féin, which was highly critical of the Government's position in the Dáil debate, I will point out the following. The regime we are bringing in is very similar to the UK regime. As Senator...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: It will be communicated in various ways. Some of it will be worked through in the operationalisation of this. One of the main things we want to see is that people are aware of the information when they are booking their flights. There will be a legal requirement for people to pre-book their own accommodation in one of the designated facilities. We are working closely with the carriers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the committee for inviting me today. I am joined by my three ministerial colleagues, namely, Deputy Butler, Minister of State with responsibility for mental health and older people; Deputy Rabbitte, Minister of State with responsibility for disability; and Deputy Feighan, Minister of State with responsibility for public health, well-being and the national drugs strategy. I thought...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. On the first issue, I wholeheartedly agree. Many of the HSE staff are exhausted. Before Covid arrived, they were run off their feet and over the past year they have been asked to step up again and again. They deserve huge credit for what they have done but we all agree simply thanking people for their work is not enough. We have to look very seriously at how fatigued...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: That is exactly right. We do need a process. What I can tell the Deputy is that the HSE is engaged on an ongoing basis at a comprehensive level with the various cohorts. There are mechanisms in the HSE and there is a lot of engagement across the service. What we are speaking about now is something on top of this to look at addressing the very serious burden and very serious exhaustion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: That is exactly right. I have seen data and the committee in the previous Dáil saw data on various cohorts and why they might be leaving the profession or the country. Certainly some of what the Deputy has proposed is being done but at a HSE-wide level. It is an excellent idea. In fact, we could perhaps go further. Something we want to keep an eye to is that as many of our graduates...

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