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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (26 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: 364. To ask the Minister for Health the learning or borrowing there has been from other health services for developing and deepening the understanding of long Covid and necessary post hoc supports and treatments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39299/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (26 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: 365. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made to raise awareness of the combination of syndromes and persistent symptoms known as long Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39300/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (26 Nov 2020)

David Cullinane: 379. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39379/20]

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (1 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: Do not be sore.

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (1 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, said earlier that she understands the difficulties workers face. She also said that politicians and political parties should be judged on their actions and not their words. So, let us judge this Minister and this Government and Fine Gael on their actions when it comes to workers. What about the Debenhams workers who are striking at the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme (1 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that exists for a school (details supplied) and other schools to install water fountains on their school grounds; the way in which an application can be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39798/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: 689. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts that have and are being made to ensure that visitation rights as set out by Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC, guidance for visiting long-term residential care facilities are being upheld; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39881/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: 735. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HPV vaccine is not available to all young women free of charge, considering that it is freely available to first year students and there would be no additional cost to make it available at any other point in secondary school as it is administered annually and the costs would be offset by the savings accrued in the year it was not availed of;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (1 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: 748. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for moving the outpatient services at Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar to a private facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40318/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (1 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: 771. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all the campuses, public sector buildings and offices that have adopted the tobacco-free campus policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40446/20]

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: I thank Solidarity-People Before Profit and Teachta Paul Murphy for bringing forward this motion which is very important. It is an issue many of us have been campaigning on for a number of months. I have had numerous engagements with the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, and have received thousands of emails from nurses and midwives on a range of issues over the past number of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: 81. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); if the pension abatement rule for public sector pensions applies to employment with section 38 and 39 organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40556/20]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: I will start with subhead J1, regarding the vaccine and procurement at a European Union level. Page 5 of the briefing document refers to 15.6 million doses of vaccines that we could potentially procure. That is across a range of different pharmaceutical companies and types of vaccines. It states that the estimated cost would be €117.6 million. Is that €117.6 million for 15.6...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: Yes, if the Minister wants to do so. This is important.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: The total cost of all those vaccines will be €117 million. It is unlikely that we will have to purchase all of them. Will we have to pay for them anyway because they are advance purchases? Are we locked in to those purchases and that cost of €117 million? If we did not draw down some of them would it be a lesser amount?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: We are locked in. That is fine. We obviously do not know which vaccine will come first. We see what is happening in Britain and all the different vaccines that are coming on board are very encouraging. Aside from the procurement costs, I imagine that there will be storage, distribution and administration costs as well. Are those factored in? Have we an estimation of what those costs will be?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: I appreciate that. Different types of vaccines will have different storage requirements and could involve different costs but we have to plan for that. The expert group will be looking at all of those things. That figure of €117 million, and whatever storage, distribution or administration costs there will be, is still quite small in the context of the overall cost of Covid. Covid...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: It will be free. Does that include not just the vaccine cost itself but the GP costs, pharmacy costs and administration costs? Will everything be provided for?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: Given that we want the vaccine to be rolled out as quickly as possible, in a safe way, I imagine that there would be a hierarchy of who should get it first and so one, similar to the flu vaccine. We will wait and see what the expert group comes back with.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2020)

David Cullinane: We will have to wait for NPHET or whichever body does it. Is there a need for additional supports beyond GPs and pharmacies? Would we have pop-up centres to support GPs, for example? GPs have a very difficult job and there is a shortage of GPs in some parts of the country. Are we looking at additional supports to support and add value to the work GPs and pharmacies will do to make sure a...