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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1368. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to differing implementation of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre’s Covid-19 guidance on visitations in long-term residential care facilities (details supplied); the way in which he plans to address varying adherence to the guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33406/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1462. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the contract of a person (details supplied); if they are employed directly by the HSE or by a third-party company; the cost to the HSE of their contract; if the HSE pays part of the cost of the contract to a third-party company; the details of their selection for their current post; if the position was tendered; the qualifications sought;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1463. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the selection of a company (details supplied) to conduct recruitment for the additional staff for swabbing and contact tracing; the reason for the selection of the company and qualifications sought; the cost of the contract with the company to run the recruitment process for swabbers and contact tracers; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1464. To ask the Minister for Health the number of follow-up calls made to incoming passengers on a weekly basis from 5 October 2020; and the number of calls which were successfully answered on a weekly basis, in tabular form [33893/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1465. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to the physical and mental health benefits of allowing gyms to remain open during the current Covid-19 restrictions; if he plans to review the measure; and the reason for closing gyms which could operate while enforcing social distancing and infection prevention and control guidance [33896/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1467. To ask the Minister for Health if the sensitivity of the PCR test for Covid-19 used in Ireland differs from that used in other jurisdictions; if his Department has considered emerging evidence that a PCR test could identify trace amounts of the virus from a past infection whereby the person would no longer be infectious; the way in which his Department will address this in policy; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1468. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has identified environments for which a PCR or antigen test for Covid-19 would be more appropriate and which test is viewed as most appropriate for each environment considered, such as schools, nursing homes, private households, workplaces and other health or congregated settings [33912/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1470. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE staff currently redeployed to the testing and tracing system from other areas of the health service; the number from each specialty that are redeployed in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33914/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (3 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 1471. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that all sanitising products supplied by the HSE are in compliance with recognised standards; and the safety assessment a product (details supplied) was put through prior to the product being purchased and supplied to healthcare outlets [33915/20]

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: By any standard, the past few days have been damaging to the Government. This has been another damaging episode for this short-lived Government. By extension, the past few days have been damaging to politics. We had the spectacle of a senior member of the Government being exposed for engaging in what can only be described as grubby activity for grubby purposes by leaking a confidential...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: An error of judgment is not the same as saying that something was wrong, and the Taoiseach's deputy also knows that; he made that point. The Taoiseach is also engaging in this distortion. That agreement was not signed off by the IMO until 16 April and was not published by the Department for another month. The code of conduct applying to a Taoiseach specifies that officeholders should...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I know that.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach is twisting-----

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Will the Taoiseach be straight with us?

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: This Finance Bill gives effect to the budget provisions. It is before us at what is unquestionably a very important and challenging time for our country. The Bill arrives in the middle of a global pandemic that has placed immense strain on our society, both in human and economic terms. We must recognise that. Nobody is suggesting that the crafting of the budget and the Finance Bill has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I apologise for being late as I was trying to be in two places at the one time as I had to attend the Convention Centre for Leaders' Questions. I have two sets of questions for the Minister. I apologise if they have been asked and I missed them. I will step back from Covid and all the other issues in the health service at the moment and turn to the reform programme, and Sláintecare in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I accept a number of points the Minister made, but aside from Covid, if we are waiting for peacetime in the health service, we will be waiting a long time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Okay, but Covid might be with us for some time. Hopefully, it will not be but it may well be. We need to move on with the reform programme. Everything we say we are aiming for, such as local services being accessible to people, accountability and value for money, cannot be achieved with the present structures. They simply cannot be. If the aim is to move activity out of hospitals into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: The budgets are the key but so too is accountability for services. The HSE is a command and control organisation. I have stated in the context of Covid that there should be a separate agency for testing and tracing. It is so centralised. The idea of Mr. Paul Reid being called on to answer to problems in west County Kerry or north County Donegal just does not make any sense and leads to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: On the SOUND group that was raised earlier, we have all had involvement with that organisation. Can the Minister supply us all with a copy of the correspondence that he promised?