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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (6 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 783. To ask the Minister for Health if work has commenced on the Traveller and Roma mental health action plan as per the programme for Government commitment; when he intends to publish the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28948/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (6 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 756. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the type of contracts that will be offered to the additional 700 swabbers and 500 contact tracers provided for in the winter plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28791/20]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I ask the Taoiseach on a regular basis to consider engaging with other party leaders, group leaders and wider society, including health experts and people with expertise from other areas, to consider the development of a strategy intended to minimise the rate of the virus in this country. I frequently make the point that responding to every upsurge with a lockdown or further restrictions is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I support the framework but it is a framework; it is not a strategy. That is the point. What we need is a strategy which will hunt down the virus. To repeat those words that came in at the very beginning of all of this, we need to be hunting down the virus. A high area of risk is in terms of travel without any safeguards. People come into this country from many red list countries and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach is raising concerns but that is not addressing it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: It is all very late in the day.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Regulations (7 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 47. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is considering using his powers under S.I. 135/2006 to increase the fixed charge penalty notice fines for illegal parking; if he is considering granting more powers to local authorities and gardaí to issue fines based on photo evidence, including parking on public footpaths which blocks the way for pedestrians and wheelchair...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Passenger Data (7 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers arriving here on a weekly basis from 7 September 2020 by country of departure, including seaports and airports in tabular form. [29154/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Passenger Data (7 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons travelling to and from the green list countries on a daily basis since 7 September 2020, including seaports and airports in tabular form. [29155/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 459 of 15 September 2020, if further clarification will be provided regarding face covering exemptions for secondary school students; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that some secondary schools operating under the joint managerial body for voluntary secondary schools are demanding that parents...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Airport Passenger Data (7 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 214. To ask the Minister for Health the level of compliance in filling out the passenger locator form on a weekly basis from 7 September 2020, in tabular form; the number of forms which were correctly and incorrectly completed on a weekly basis, in tabular form; and the number of persons that refused to fill out the form on a weekly basis in tabular form. [29152/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Airport Passenger Data (7 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 239. To ask the Minister for Health the number of follow-up calls made to incoming passengers on a weekly basis from 7 September 2020, in tabular form; and the number of calls which were successfully answered on a weekly basis in tabular form. [29153/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (7 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 248. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline he is working to for the transfer of the disability budget to the Department of Children, Disability, Equality and Integration; the overall budget that is being transferred; the specific changes in the amounts allocated to each affected subhead of the Government estimates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29201/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget Targets (7 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the fulfilment of promises made in budget 2020 to increase the medical card income threshold for persons over 70 years of age, reduce the GMS scheme prescription charge, reduce the drug payment scheme threshold, and extend free general practitioner care for all children under eight years of age; the reason for the delay; the timeline he is...

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: To pick up on a point the Minister made, the practice is not to publish NPHET's letters until the Cabinet makes a decision. They do not come out straight after NPHET meets. Let us get matters clear about the leaking of the letter or the information about the recommendation to move to level 5. Did the Minister or anybody associated with him leak that information?

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: It is a straight question.

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: That is grand. That has clarified the point. The Minister and some of his Cabinet colleagues have mentioned that there was no reason that they could see for changing the levels or restrictions from the Thursday recommendation, and that nothing had changed in those three days.

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister said that Thursday's conditions did not warrant raising the levels.

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: That was the point that Dr. Holohan was making, that when he looked at the five-day average figures, they had changed quite substantially by Saturday, and there had been a 50% increase in the five-day average over that week. Is that the case?

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Róisín Shortall: There was a 50% increase. There were clearly many signs. Dr. Holohan had come back to work two days earlier than planned. There was an unscheduled meeting called for Sunday. The CMO contacted the Minister directly to tell him about that and the Minister spoke to him on Sunday morning. There were many signs that the situation was quite grave. Presumably that sense was conveyed to the...