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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: After 12 weeks of severe level 5 lockdown, the daily Covid-19 case numbers remain stubbornly high. Leaving aside the kite-flying that has been entirely unhelpful in recent weeks, the question for the Government is what exact steps it will take to address this problem to drive down numbers and allow some level of opening society and the economy. The vast majority of people have severely...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Will the Tánaiste answer some of the questions I asked?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I think the Tánaiste was really disingenuous in the answer he gave there. I asked him specific questions about things the Government had promised to do to play its part in the response to Covid. They were on things we have been through umpteen times and he did not answer a single one of them. How can he expect the public to stay with the Government and to stay the course when the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 125. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the leave entitlements of a person who has become a parent through surrogacy; if it is planned to make provisions for a person who becomes a parent through surrogacy to take leave, including maternity, paternity, parental and-or adoptive leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16449/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 218. To ask the Minister for Health the grounds for selection in respect of the 33 category 2 countries for travel purposes; the supporting data in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16187/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Public Health Emergency Team (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 236. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the recommendation NPHET made in its letter of 18 February 2021 to expand mandatory hotel quarantine to all inbound passengers was not implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16239/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 237. To ask the Minister for Health the cohorts being vaccinated at the Helix, DCU; the average number each day who are being vaccinated on site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16240/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 238. To ask the Minister for Health if all nursing homes will implement the new visitation guidelines to allow for a second weekly visit; if not, the nursing homes which will or will not implement the new guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16241/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 241. To ask the Minister for Health if persons in mandatory hotel quarantine will be required to take daily exercise only on the campus of the hotel and not in the surrounding public area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16244/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 244. To ask the Minister for Health the projected timeline for the opening of the new national forensic mental health service hospital, Portrane; if recruitment has been successfully completed to ensure a full complement of staff for the new facility; if site identification has commenced for the two new 30-bed regional intensive care units in Cork and Galway; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (25 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 245. To ask the Minister for Health the availability of a cosmetic dentistry grant and the criteria for same or the financial assistance for urgent orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16265/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Can you hear me, Chairman?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I want to thank all our witnesses today. Many of the questions being asked by members are questions that require political answers and it is unfair to take it out on some of the people today who are administering the schemes. The decisions with regard to who gets a medical card or a GP visit card are essentially political ones and it is important to bear that in mind. We are told that 42%...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Are we talking about the middle of next year at the earliest?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: It would be into next year, obviously.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: To where have those resources been deployed? What are the people who might be expected to do that review doing now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I thank Mr. Judge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Could I get a reply on the medical cards for unemployed people and children?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. That has not changed. Is there a number for new applications on the basis of unemployment over the past year?