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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Contracts (10 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (10 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: It is recognised that waiting times for scheduled appointments and procedures have been impacted in the last year as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The HSE is currently recommending that only critical time dependent elective procedures are undertaken at this time due to the on-going and significant increased demand for bed capacity related to Covid-19. This decision was made...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Car Parks (10 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The Department of Health has been informed of four reports of stillbirth potentially associated with a complication of COVID-19 known as Covid placentitis. Two of the four stillbirths associated with COVID-19 have been notified to HPSC on CIDR as COVID-19 deaths and are included in the COVID-19 deaths total. The notification of the remaining two cases as COVID-19 deaths is under...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (10 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: As the HSE has responsibility for the provision, along with the maintenance and operation of Primary Care Centres and other Primary Care facilities, the Executive has been asked to reply directly to the Deputy.

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

Stephen Donnelly: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of public healthcare infrastructure projects, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.

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

Stephen Donnelly: As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the delivery of public healthcare infrastructure projects, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.

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

Stephen Donnelly: As this is an operational matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly.

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

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

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

Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy may wish to note that the approval of the HSE is required to facilitate the transfer by the Religious Sisters of Charity of their shareholding in St Vincent’s Healthcare Group (SVHG) to St Vincent’s Holdings CLG. I understand that the SVHG hassought this approval and engagement between the parties is ongoing. The Deputy can be assured that I fully appreciate the need...

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

Stephen Donnelly: The information requested by the Deputy is being collated by Department officials and a deferred reply will be submitted within ten working days. As this question is also relevant to the Health Service Executive, I have asked them to reply directly to the Deputy, as soon as possible.

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. She has used very strong language. Her criticism is essentially a criticism of the thousands of women and men who are working seven days a week to deliver what has been one of the fastest roll-outs in the EU, prioritising our most vulnerable, changing at very short notice from AstraZeneca to the much more complex mRNA vaccine and changing at short notice to the...

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I will finish on this.

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy said it was a shambles.

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I would be more than happy to debate it at length and respectfully. I really would. I know we are out of time.

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I will be more than happy to engage with the Deputy at length on this at a later date. I was simply responding to the Deputy's charge that the programme was a shambles. I was trying to answer the questions raised.

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: If the House would allow it, I would be more than happy to spend more time with the Deputy.

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: On Deputy Mattie McGrath's statements regarding the flu vaccine----

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I will do my best. I was making the point that Deputy Mattie McGrath has continued to make false statements and he is seeking written answers to false statements around flu jabs which obviously we cannot give him.