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Health (Covid-19): Statements (16 Apr 2020)

Róisín Shortall: There is a question about transparency, although I am not pointing the finger at anybody. A number of aspects of the response to Covid-19 do not add up for people. One such matter is the fact that the test numbers are so low. People have heard for many weeks that we should be doing 15,000 tests a day, but that is not happening. In fact, the numbers are very low, which calls into question...

Irish Economy: Statements (23 Apr 2020)

Róisín Shortall: None of the talk here today will count for anything and none of the projections will come to pass unless we get one thing right, namely, the question of tracing and testing. The entire strategy for addressing the pandemic in this country is to have a substantial testing and tracing regime in place such that a minimum of 15,000 people per day are tested. There has been talk about that for...

Irish Economy: Statements (23 Apr 2020)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister has already thanked those at the coalface saving us, but the way to thank them properly is by ensuring they are properly paid.

Health (Covid-19): Statements (Resumed) (23 Apr 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I will try to ask five questions in five minutes and hopefully I will get five answers. The first relates to the strategy the national effort is based on, that is, a strategy of test and trace on a large-scale basis - 15,000 a day. We have heard that promise for several weeks now and we are currently at 5,000 a day. Does the Minister accept that the point at which we can start to ease...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (Resumed) (23 Apr 2020)

Róisín Shortall: There are five.

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1 o’clock I wish to express appreciation for the outstanding work that is being done on the front line, particularly by health workers, and to offer the condolences of the Social Democrats to the many families who have lost loved ones in this pandemic. Since the first case of Covid-19 in this country two months ago, we have been told that the strategy was to establish a robust...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I am raising with the Minister the question of testing and tracing. This is the strategy on which everything else is based. An enormous national effort is being put in based on the premise that the strategy of test and trace would actually operate, but it has not operated at anything like at the scale that is required. We have been told that the target figure for capacity should be 15,000...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister spoke about the behaviour of the virus. Dr. Tony Holohan raised this as well. We can only know about the behaviour of the virus if there is a proper test and tracing system in place. As I said to the Taoiseach earlier today, this is a circular argument. We need to get down the number of people in hospitals and, in particular, intensive care units. We will only succeed in...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Is it completed?

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (7 May 2020)

Róisín Shortall: People are raising all kinds of different issues. The longer we continue in this health crisis, the deeper we get into an economic crisis as well. Practically every aspect of life has been impacted by the virus and the associated economic recession we are in. I want to take us back to stage 1 in this Government's response to this virus, namely, the strategy we are pursuing in this country...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (7 May 2020)

Róisín Shortall: It is to test; it is not about capacity.

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (7 May 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Why were they so narrow when we needed to test?

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (7 May 2020)

Róisín Shortall: That is a different issue.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (7 May 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I want to start off with the subject of testing, on which we have never had a satisfactory answer. We have been told we will get to a point, on 18 May, when it is hoped we will be able to test 15,000 people per day and carry out the associated tracing. Last week, the Minister for Health and the Taoiseach were at pains to point out that this is about capacity to test rather than actually...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (7 May 2020)

Róisín Shortall: What about the objective?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Standards in Public Office Commission (13 May 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 147 of 5 March 2020, the timeline for the review of recommendation 12 by the Standards in Public Office Commission (details supplied) with regard to the one-year cooling off period for designated public officials, DPOs, who seek to engage in lobbying activities. [4255/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Standards in Public Office Commission (13 May 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 125. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 147 of 5 March 2020, the data protection provisions to which he is referring in response to recommendation 17 by the Standards in Public Office Commission which seeks to publish summary details of investigations under section 19 of the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015. [4256/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (13 May 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 522. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the introduction of minimum unit pricing for alcohol; and the timeline to which he is working. [4232/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy Provision (13 May 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 523. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for the early intervention team for Dublin 9; when a child (details supplied) will be given an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4233/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Waste Disposal (13 May 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 524. To ask the Minister for Health if local authorities have powers under the Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act 1919 to take action in cases in which the build-up of an accumulation of rubbish and litter in the back garden of a privately owned house is causing a rodent infestation in adjoining dwellings; if the authorities have the power to inspect such a property and to order the removal of...