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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Data (10 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 768. To ask the Minister for Health if organisations tendering for HSE contracts are awarded higher or lower points depending on whether they are for-profit or not-for-profit organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35358/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (10 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 779. To ask the Minister for Health the average turnaround time for contact tracing job applications; and if there is currently a time lag in responding to applications for this role. [35431/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 780. To ask the Minister for Health if the purchase of home furniture including bed frames and mattresses is classified as essential retail under the definition included in the list of essential services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35432/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (10 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 831. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which funding for Rásíocht Con Éireann will be dependent on welfare standards; the welfare standards that will be used; the way in which the standards will be tracked and evaluated; the timeline that applies to the evaluation of standards for the purpose of funding certification; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (11 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a web link to the Road Safety Strategy 2004-2006 as it does not seem to be available on his Department’s website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35672/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (11 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 753 of 3 November 2020, if her attention has been drawn to a school giving enrolment priority to residents of Dublin 15 despite having opened in response to demographic need in Scribblestown and Finglas west, County Dublin (details supplied); and if the matter will be addressed. [35543/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Supervision and Substitution Scheme (11 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to put in place a greater number of second level substitute teachers for certain subjects for which there is a shortage of substitutes - for example, biology, maths, physics and home economics - in order that students currently in sixth year are not at a disadvantage when they take the leaving certificate in 2021; and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance (11 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care allowance application by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35673/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (11 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the status and timeline for the delivery of a primary care centre in Finglas, Dublin 11, which was first promised over eight years ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35674/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (11 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 237. To ask the Minister for Health if a record of meetings the HSE held on plans to build a private hospital in an area (details supplied), including dates and attendees, will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35729/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (11 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 238. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a commitment, tacit or otherwise, to purchase services or use any element of the services at a proposed new facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35730/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (11 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: We need a bit of balance. If we are going to have a session on that, we need to discuss pricing. Very often, drugs cannot be approved in this country because of the exorbitant prices that are allowed to be charged here. There is an opportunity cost involved. If one wants to approve €5 million for a given drug, €5 million is taken from other health services. If we are to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome Mr. Reid and his colleagues. I thank them for their attendance and for their ongoing work in this very important area. I just want to talk for a few moments about one of those few positives that came out of Covid, and that is the acceleration of some elements of Sláintecare. Earlier in the year, Mr. Reid referred to what was happening as "Sláintecare on speed". It is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I am sorry, but I asked what the HSE is doing to ensure there is an adequate number of GPs. It is fine to say there is a pipeline, but we know the current model does not support the establishment of GP practices in areas of high disadvantage. One proposal was to have salaried GPs and the HSE would provide premises. What is being done to address this issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Sure, but I would appreciate a breakdown of that schedule in respect of how much is going to Covid-19 and how much to new services.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: With all due respect, the HSE's calculation was based on increasing the uptake of the vaccine among the at-risk groups. There is no doubt that this is an important objective. However, does this situation now mean that the order put in by the HSE earlier in the year for 1.4 million doses will not cater for anybody outside those at-risk groups? Was that a mistake? Is the message to people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Given the year that is in it, when people are conscious of health and taking steps to prevent getting any infections, including the flu, many people were of the view that this year they would get the vaccine. Dr. Henry is now telling those people, however, that there are not sufficient doses of the vaccine to allow people outside the at-risk groups to get it. Is there a question now about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: That has not been the practice. Companies provide the vaccine as a preventative measure, as do the Houses of the Oireachtas. There has been a big shift in policy this year, if Dr. Henry is stating that people should not get the vaccine if they are not in the at-risk groups. I think that is a mistake.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I want to raise the question of international travel and some recent developments in that regard, and hopefully get some clarification from the Tánaiste. Last week, the Chief Medical Officer, CMO, when he appeared before the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications Networks, was asked about the possibility of restrictions on air travel being eased in order to facilitate people to...