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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 986. To ask the Minister for Health if the review of the HPSC guidelines regarding visits to nursing homes and long-term care facilities has been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12031/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 854. To ask the Minister for Health when members of An Garda Síochána are scheduled to receive the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11536/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (3 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 917. To ask the Minister for Health the status of progress of the commitment to establish a national laboratory for cervical cancer screening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11785/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (3 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 918. To ask the Minister for Health the number of samples that have been received at CervicalCheck laboratories for January 2021 and for January 2020, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11786/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (3 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 919. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were invited to attend a cervical screening appointment via CervicalCheck in 2019; the number of these persons who attended the appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11787/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (3 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 920. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who were invited to attend a cervical screening appointment via CervicalCheck in 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of these persons who attended the appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11788/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (3 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 921. To ask the Minister for Health the number of colposcopy clinics that are currently operating at full capacity to examine persons with smear abnormalities who have been referred on for further examination during the current Covid-19 level 5 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11789/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (3 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 922. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to difficulties being faced by persons seeking access to cervical cancer screening appointments via their general practitioner surgeries under current Covid-19 level 5 restrictions; the measures that have been undertaken to ensure that any short term delays being encountered will be addressed; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (3 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 923. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that have been put in place to manage backlogs which have built up within the cervical cancer screening services as a direct result of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11791/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 984. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out across nursing homes and long-term care facilities in an area (details supplied); the number of residents who have received their first dose of the vaccine in these facilities; the number who have received their second dose of the vaccine in these facilities; and the number who have not yet received a vaccine....

Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The "RTÉ Investigates" programme, "Who Am I?" catalogued trauma and distress. While this generated some shock among the public, those who were not shocked by all of this are those who have lived their lives seeking the answer to that profoundly simply question, "who am I?". Those also not shocked were the State and its agencies, which have known that illegal adoption and the illegal...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Last week, two things happened in the world of high finance which caused understandable public outrage. First came the announcement that the Government will again allow the payment of outrageous bonuses to elite staff at AIB, a bank bailed out by the Irish people, as the Taoiseach will recall. Then, we had the news that 16 employees at Davy, many of them senior executives, had broken the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Anyone who hoped that the toxic culture of greed and personal gain had been banished from financial services - from the upper echelons and the elites of financial services - had their eyes opened again last week. Davy has made it clear that this culture is alive and well. People who imagined that the culture of acquiescence in all this on the part of Fianna Fáil and successive...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Do they work in banks or in Departments? Will the Taoiseach join me in stating that Davy bringing in a third party to carry out an investigation of these matters is wholly unacceptable and insufficient and that it ought to be the Central Bank that sets the terms for such an investigation and oversees it? We need full transparency here.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Jesus.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: We all know the facts.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: The HSE is proposing to remove in-school speech and language therapy services from the Holy Family School for the Deaf on the Navan Road and, I think, from the deaf schools in Cork and Limerick. Whatever the merits of the new children's disability network teams for provision of these services to the general population, it is beyond belief that consideration would even be given to removing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: I wish to raise two issues. First, I share the concerns that have been voiced here around the slowness of the vaccination programme. It is absolutely imperative we have those conversations, not just with London and the British system, but that we explore all avenues in respect of supply. I believe the issues around delivery of vaccines also need to be straightened out. I raised with the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the European Council meeting held on 25 and 26 February 2021. [13100/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (10 Mar 2021)

Mary Lou McDonald: Can the Taoiseach clarify whether the British Prime Minister had given him notice of his proposal to act unilaterally and outside of the remit of the joint committee in respect of the protocol? Was the Taoiseach given advance notice of that or any indication that was about to happen? If the Taoiseach was, did he share that information with members of the Cabinet? It is imperative that...