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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (20 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: We have no apologies. We have matter to address before I call our witnesses to present. Are the draft minutes of our private and public meetings of Tuesday, 13 April, agreed with no matters arising? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: I welcome our witnesses from the Health Service Executive, HSE, and the national immunisation advisory committee, NIAC. They are presenting virtually to our meeting and will provide us with an update on the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccination programme. From the HSE, we have Dr. Colm Henry, chief clinical officer, Mr. Damien McCallion, national lead for the Covid-19 vaccination...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: I thank Dr. Henry. I call Professor Butler to make her opening remarks. She also has five minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: I thank Professor Butler. As members are also attending the meeting virtually from their offices and therefore cannot see the clock to monitor speaking time, I will try to advise them when they have a minute remaining. I ask again that speakers stick to their time allocation to facilitate all members participating in today's meeting. Our first questioner is Deputy Colm Burke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: Deputy Colm Burke's time is up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: Deputy Shortall is out of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: I thank Deputy Shortall.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: The next speaker is Deputy Cathal Crowe.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: Dr. Henry referred earlier to over-70s being largely vaccinated. There have been a number of questions today. The difficulty for some people who have contacted us, as public representatives, is that the HSE has been running an advertisement for a number of weeks which states that the over-70s have been largely vaccinated and that it will be moving on to others. This is causing problems for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: That concludes our business for today. This has been a very useful meeting, not only for the committee but for people watching the proceedings at home. I thank all the contributors. The select committee will meet at 3.30 p.m. on Thursday, 27 April, to consider the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2021 for the Department of Health, which the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (13 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: There are no apologies. We have our full membership present. We have one item of committee business to be addressed before I call our witness, Dr. Ronan Glynn, to present to us. I take it that the draft minutes of our private and public meetings of last Thursday, 8 April, are agreed and that there are no matters arising. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (13 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: Please, go ahead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (13 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: Sound. I do not want to open a debate on this. I see Senator Conway has his hand up but I ask him-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (13 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: I think there is general agreement on that. I know Deputy Shortall has her hand up and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (13 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: I call Deputy Shortall.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (13 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: Yes, but I-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (13 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: Deputy Durkan, is this on the same issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (13 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: No, and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (13 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: As has been pointed out, we can raise this at our private meeting. NIAC and the HSE are coming before us. I want to move on and introduce our witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
Seán Crowe: I welcome our witnesses from the National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, to the meeting this afternoon. The witnesses will present virtually to our meeting to provide us with an update on where we are on tackling the Covid-19 pandemic. I welcome Dr. Ronan Glynn, deputy chief medical officer, Mr. Gerry O'Brien, director of health protection division at the Department of Health, and...