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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: I welcome the Minister and thank him for giving his time to the committee. I pay tribute also to the Ministers of State, Deputies Rabbitte and Butler, who have been available at any hour of the day or night over the last six or seven months to answer myriad questions, and to the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, who is also very obliging. I want to pay tribute to the Minister's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: That is welcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: Excuse me, I am tight on time. If I understand the Minister correctly, it is organic, flexible and evolving. It is not the end of the review and as more supply comes, that allows for increasing flexibility.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: I want to ask about Cabinet discussions with regard to essential workers coming in from overseas. I am happy with a written answer on this. I have no doubt this issue exists and that it is legitimate. Could the Minister give some of the categories of essential workers who must travel in and out of Ireland on a daily, weekly or monthly basis - some kind of categories or a brief overview of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: Unless the Minister can give some indication, I am happy to take the written reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: With regard to the over-85s, on which Professor MacCraith answered on Saturday, we are all inundated with representations that they have not got their GP appointments yet, and some who have got them have had them postponed because of issues with supply. Am I correct in stating that this issue has begun to be resolved from yesterday forward?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: A number of very well-meaning and generous community organisations in different constituencies offered their facilities where GPs had to buddy up, and they were refused and were a little bewildered by that. The GPs seemed to think the facilities would suffice. Has the Minister any intelligence on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: I will move on to a different area, and the Minister is going to love me for asking this question. He inherited the issue, as I think the committee acknowledges. Is it time that some sort of mediative process was introduced into the national children's hospital debate? It is dragging on. It is going on in the background and there is a kind of slinging going on from both sides. It seems...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (25 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: 316. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the access to care fund and the HSE national treatment fund action plan for 2021 announced in budget 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10867/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety Inspections (24 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: 9. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of inspections of business and commercial premises that have been undertaken by the Health and Safety Authority since September 2020; the outcome of same; if penalties were imposed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9400/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (24 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: 291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of children and families in hotel accommodation and family hubs; and the prospects of secure housing for these persons. [9557/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (24 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: 466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fee of €650 (details supplied), being charged to students of private colleges completing the professional masters of education in primary teaching course, for a two-week online Gaeltacht course despite the fact that the fee of €750 was charged pre-Covid-19 for a two-week course located...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: 755. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to administer Covid-19 vaccinations to vulnerable persons who are unable to leave their home commencing with those over 85 years of age; if plans are in place in relation to same; if so, the timeline for such plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9383/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: 904. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be a requirement for persons to quarantine in a hotel following their return from abroad in cases in which an Irish citizen is returning home from abroad on a work contract that has expired and where the person was vaccinated against Covid-19 under the vaccination programme of the third-country; and if not, if they can quarantine in their home...

Covid-19 (Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: The Tánaiste has no time. I call Deputy Durkan, who is sharing time.

Covid-19 (Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: The Minister and Ministers of State might correspond with the Deputy.

Covid-19 (Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: I have a specific question that I am willing to accept a written answer on. It is on .ie domain names and the abuse of them by overseas operators. They are masquerading as Irish suppliers and then a person discovers that this business is operating from outside the jurisdiction. That has an impact on genuine .ie traders. I will make some points that will allow the Tánaiste some degree...

Covid-19 (Drug and Alcohol Services, and Homelessness): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: I understand that Deputy Alan Farrell is sharing time.

Covid-19 (Drug and Alcohol Services, and Homelessness): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: Yes, Deputy Hourigan.