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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: 245. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the support and advice services available to persons experiencing long-term effects of Covid-19. [23222/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: 246. To ask the Minister for Health the staff currently assigned or redeployed to Covid-19 testing and tracing work on the basis of their original discipline or area of work within the health service and from other Departments or agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23223/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: 247. To ask the Minister for Health the current information available to him on the efficacy of single Covid-19 testing for persons that are asymptomatic in respect of the reliability of such results; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23224/20]
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: That is inappropriate. The Deputy should not be going along with this now.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: I welcome the witnesses from HIQA. Some people need to be reminded that a regulator is only as effective as the legislation that underpins it and as the budget provided to it. It is hard to take Government representatives here - one member for the second time - having a go for the purposes of headlines rather than taking responsibility for the lack of legislation and powers given to HIQA....
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: Sorry, I wish to clarify what Ms Dunnion is saying. Is she saying there is no statutory requirement for nurse ratios in nursing homes?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: So it is one's definition of "appropriate level".
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: On how many occasions, roughly, has HIQA brought the absence of statutory staffing levels to the attention of a Minister?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: Have there been official responses from various Ministers?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Examination of HIQA Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Nursing Homes in Ireland (10 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: Just on that question of the numbers of residents in nursing homes who died from Covid as opposed to with Covid, is there any further work being done on that?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: Anybody tuning into the press conference this morning expecting to get clarity and coherent advice will have been bitterly disappointed. The press conference today brought a Government message that was confused and extremely confusing to the public. The new plan was supposed to provide clarity about the five levels of risk, yet on the first day of the announcement, the Government decided to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: No, there is not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach must accept-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: It is level 2, then.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: What about visitors?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: That is not what I am saying.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: The data confirm it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: I did not say anything about the pubs.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: Like thousands of other people, I listened to the press conference this morning and I found it extremely confusing. In regard to Dublin, people in Dublin desperately want to fight this virus and they want clear advice. The Taoiseach said this morning that the country is in level 2 yet the level 2 regulations do not apply to people in Dublin. Dublin is not in level 3, so what level is it...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)
Róisín Shortall: Sorry, has it been published today? I looked for it this morning but I did not find it.