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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 939. To ask the Minister for Health the priority group in which carers for children with cancer will be included for the vaccination against Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13343/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 940. To ask the Minister for Health when carers for children with cancer can expect to be vaccinated against Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13344/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 941. To ask the Minister for Health if persons aged 16 to 64 years of age with haematological cancers will be reprioritised within the Covid-19 vaccination strategy and moved to cohort 4 alongside others whose illness puts them at high risk of severe disease if they contract the virus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13345/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Oireachtas Joint Committee Recommendations (10 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 942. To ask the Minister for Health if the recommendations regarding sodium valproate made by the Oireachtas Committee on Health of the 32nd Dáil (details supplied) have been fully implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13350/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (10 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 943. To ask the Minister for Health if a register is currently operational to record persons that are prescribed the drug sodium valproate during pregnancy; if a register is currently operational to record persons affected by foetal anticonvulsant syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13351/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 945. To ask the Minister for Health the CHO areas in which attendees at day services are being charged for transport costs; the number of persons being charged; the estimated costs charged and revenue raised each month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13356/21]

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: There is a real frustration out there with the roll-out of the vaccine. The Minister has accepted and acknowledged some of that frustration. That frustration is understandable. Nobody in this Chamber can say that the roll-out so far has been as efficient as we would have wanted it to be. It is falling short of people's reasonable expectations. We have had real problems on the supply...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: As the Minister for Health, has he been in direct contact with AstraZeneca? Has he spoken to the company? What response did he receive? These are agreements reached through the European Commission with this company. People want to know if the Minister is being hands-on. Has he spoken directly to the company? Has he spoken directly to the European Commission to express the frustration of...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: With respect, I asked if the Minister for Health has contacted AstraZeneca directly. He has acknowledged that there is frustration. He has acknowledged the missed targets. In his view it is the responsibility of AstraZeneca. I accept that the agreement is through the European Commission, but the Minister for Health has responsibility for the supply side. I am asking him a straight...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: I ask the Minister about family carers. He knows I feel very strongly about this. I have met hundreds of them and will meet hundreds more today because they are really concerned that they are being left behind. They are really concerned that they are not being valued and respected. They have said time and again they are not looking to take vaccines from anybody else. They are supporting...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: I have given the Minister a good run to respond.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: In fairness, we have a very short time, as the Minister knows. Are family carers being considered for cohort 6? I ask the Minister to give a "Yes" or "No" answer to that.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: A colleague of the Minister's, a Fianna Fáil Deputy, responded to a family carer saying that she had a meeting with him and he had informed her, subject to a recommendation coming from the NIAC, that family carers would be in category 6 and that carers should not be as concerned as that particular carer was because there would be movement. Either that is right or it is wrong. We need...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: Regarding category 6, a Fianna Fáil Deputy-----

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: That is unacceptable. I asked about-----

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 198. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing composition proposed for each of the mass vaccination centres; the targets for each; the numbers hired for each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13643/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 199. To ask the Minister for Health the current longest waiting time by number of days across each waiting list by each speciality by each hospital group and by hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13647/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (11 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 219. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 249 of 18 February 2021, if his Department has conducted a workforce census of the entire public and private health and social care system (details supplied); the breakdown or estimates of workers across categories of service providers by profession and speciality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13691/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Nursing Homes and Development of a New Model of Care for Older People: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: I welcome all the witnesses. I want to use my time as productively as I can. I want to start with Mr. Quinn. Obviously, if Mr. Quinn needs to refer to his colleagues that is fine but, in terms of a fluid conversation, if Mr. Quinn has the answers, he himself might reply. I want to focus in on the powers of enforcement and regulation and the area of accountability when it comes to nursing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Nursing Homes and Development of a New Model of Care for Older People: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: My time is short and I ask people to be as succinct as they can in responding. Essentially, Mr. Quinn is saying that HIQA would want to have the possibility of improvement notices that HIQA could serve. Would that be similar to what the Health and Safety Authority and the food authority do?