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European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 318 of 2020): Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I am pleased to be able to speak on this motion and to outline my sheer disgust that this statutory instrument was signed into law by the Taoiseach in the absence of his second Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. While I understand that the Minister was not sitting in that seat when this statutory instrument was signed at the end of August I feel that he and his party have not...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (29 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the review that he is carrying out into a company (details supplied); and the timeframe for the completion of this review. [26750/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Airports (29 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the Department that is carrying out the review into a company (details supplied). [26751/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reviews (29 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 328. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department is carrying out a review into company (details supplied); and if so, if this review is separate from that of the Department of Transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26752/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 866. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot access a family general practitioner in their locality [26743/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 867. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot access a family general practitioner in their locality [26744/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 868. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot access a family general practitioner in their locality [26745/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 869. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to address the shortage of general practitioner places in Killimer, County Clare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26746/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (29 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 870. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons in County Clare are being forced to travel to Limerick city to access testing for Covid-19 when there is a testing centre in Cusack Park, Ennis, County Clare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26747/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (29 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 871. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which persons in County Clare who do not drive are expected to attend a drive in Covid-19 testing centre in Limerick city while being advised not to use public transport and asked to self-isolate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26748/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 872. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the only treatment for persons with dry age-related macular degeneration disease, MacuShield, is not covered by the medical card reimbursement scheme in view of the fact that this mainly effects older persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26749/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (29 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 993. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay for persons in County Clare getting access to their yearly flu vaccination; when the vaccine will be rolled out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27342/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (24 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I appreciate the Minister of State's presence here. The Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, needs to look into this matter personally. We need to end the blanket ban on visitors in our hospitals and other care facilities. We need more humanity, more leadership and more solutions. Warm winter gardens could be considered for nursing homes. We are social creatures after all, and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (24 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: We all appreciate that Covid-19 has thrown up some unprecedented challenges for our health service and staff and it most certainly did so for our patients in vulnerable positions and their families. Covid-19 arriving on this island has seen great demands on our people, including behavioural and habitual changes to what we have long been accustomed. That should be recognised by this House. ...

EU-UK Negotiations on Brexit: Statements (24 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I will use this time to address the issues caused by Brexit here and across the world. In June 2016, England and Wales voted to leave the European Union and this vote would change the landscape of the EU, the UK and Ireland for years to come. In effect, the North of Ireland and Scotland were forced out of the EU against the will of their people. Four years on, we are still talking about...

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (23 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: We have been flagging transport issues in the House for months now. Transport was severely impacted by the difficulties of Covid-19, but people want to hear solutions and action. To date, we have seen bus routes cancelled or reduced in capacity, the total collapse of the aviation sector and serious issues exposed in our school transport scheme. Locally, in my constituency of Clare, I have...

Sick Leave and Parental Leave (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I welcome this Bill to the House and I commend Teachta Kelly on the timely introduction of this Bill. I am pleased to be able to speak on this Bill and offer my support to it. As has been previously mentioned and will be well known to many who have the experience, Ireland is an outlier in terms of sick pay within the European Union. There is little to no legal right to sick pay here. It is...

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: We are all aware that Covid-19 has thrown up some real challenges for our nation, especially in respect of health, but the massive strain on jobs and business too has been thrown to the fore. The ways in which people have engaged with their week's work has for some become better but for others worse. Workers have found themselves working from home, an idea their employers would have said...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (15 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 71. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to address the waiting times to obtain an appointment to see a rheumatologist in the mid-western areas of the country in view of the fact that persons with fibromyalgia are left on long-term waiting lists resulting in low quality of life due to pain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23696/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (15 Sep 2020)

Violet-Anne Wynne: 94. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allow pregnant women to attend hospital appointments with their partners; his plans to allow restrictions on same to be lifted in hospitals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23695/20]