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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I am talking about community-based care that would be nurse-led care for chronic illness management, which takes up about 70% of healthcare activity. There is a commitment in Sláintecare to move that out of hospitals and into nurse-led care within primary care. When will we see action in that area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: When will we see some of that chronic illness care being nurse led, given that nurses in the main are best qualified to lead the management of chronic illness?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I am sure the Minister will accept that it is time to move beyond pilot schemes. We need to start implementing Sláintecare in a serious way. I must say that the service plan this year is disappointing in that respect. My next question is on public health doctors and the pertinent need to have proper retrospective tracing. When will we see a resolution of the public health doctors'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: My final question relates to vitamin D. Last week, a group of experts and varying different disciplines of doctors appeared before the committee. They made a compelling case for the recommendation of a minimum level of vitamin D supplementation. Will the Minister give that some serious consideration? It seems that it has been put on the back boiler by NPHET. There is, however, compelling...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Briefly, studies have been done on vitamin D in this country related to bone and muscle health, which is obviously a completely different area. Anybody at the committee who listened to the evidence presented by that group of experts last week cannot but believe we need to make clear recommendations on that to the public in respect of Covid-19. I ask the Minister to please brief us on that issue.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I want to ask about the vaccination programme because I am concerned about two aspects of it. Vaccines provide great hope for people. The vast majority of people are looking forward to getting vaccinated and are keen to know when they are likely to receive a vaccine. For that reason, I think we need to improve the data that are available. Many of us have been looking to the Minister...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: The figures that are available now indicate that we are not administering the vaccines that have come in. Perhaps the Government needs to update the figures on what is coming in, but it is important it does that so that there is transparency about this. It is not a matter of giving me the figures. These are figures that should be publicly available. It is only when the Government is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: -----so that we can get the vaccines out as quickly as they arrive.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: It is the ones that are delivered to the country.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: It is the number that we are receiving.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: We do not have the figures. Why does the Government not publish them?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I agree with the points made. Extra time must be provided to allow some discussion of the behaviour of a number of leading lights in the area of banking and financial institutions. In particular, I am thinking of what has been unearthed in Davy. It is one thing to impose a fine of €4 million but what we really need to see is the people concerned in this kind of criminal activity...

Banking Sector: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Given the appalling behaviour of some of our banks and stockbrokers over the past week or so, we really need more time to deal with this discussion. It is not acceptable that our time is cut so short. There needs to be a huge amount more consideration, examination and questioning of these matters. Most people have been saying to themselves over the past few days, "Here we go again." We...

Banking Sector: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: On a point of order, I posed six questions and I did so briefly. With respect, I believe the Minister has an obligation to answer those six questions.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 41. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the European Union’s blockage of the Waiver from Certain Provisions of the TRIPS Agreement for the Prevention, Containment and Treatment of Covid-19; if he will address the concerns of non-Governmental organisations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11814/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Passenger Data (3 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passengers arriving into each airport in Ireland on a weekly basis since 1 January 2021 by country of original departure in tabular form and not country of last departure as is listed in the weekly aviation statistics. [11816/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Passenger Data (3 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a consideration will be given to publishing international arrivals from category 2 designated states based on the original country of departure in the weekly aviation statistics in the interests of transparency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12168/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 284. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if consideration has been given to including the English language schools sector in the tourism business continuity scheme given its dependence on international tourism; the supports available to this industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11819/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if early school leavers will be afforded the opportunity to sit their junior certificate examination; if so, when she expects these exams to be held; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11114/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has discussed with the teachers’ unions the wearing of face masks for sixth-class students given the WHO recommendation that all children aged 12 and over should wear a mask; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12169/21]