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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jan 2021)

Seán Crowe: 818. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be referred to the clinical genetics department of Crumlin children’s hospital, given that, through human error on the part of a consultant, the person was not added to the waiting list after an appointment in February 2020 and was only placed on the waiting list in December 2020. [44917/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Seán Crowe: 943. To ask the Minister for Health the official title of the Covid-19 case management system that records daily cases; the date on which this system was activated; the amount spent on this system in both its development and since activation; the persons and bodies that have access to this system; the daily capacity for the corroboration of positive swabs to individual cases; the way in which...

Covid-19 Task Force: Statements (17 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: This year will go down in history as one of the toughest the world has faced in generations. The election for the Dáil was only in February but it feels like a lifetime ago now. This is a year many of us would like to forget. Ireland has seen more than 76,000 cases of Covid and more than 2,000 deaths from it. The losses endured by thousands of families are unimaginable. Loved ones...

Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: Like others, I welcome this Bill. The consensus in the House is we need to do more. These amendments strengthen the Bill. They certainly do not undermine or weaken it and the Minister of State needs to look clearly at them. The IT changes over the past two decades have made it much easier for such communications. As a public representative, I have dealt with some of these cases. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: Tea, coffee and mince pies are available upstairs. People need only say they were attending the committee. I was going to organise that for the committee but was advised we could not it because of Covid restrictions. If people want to have a cup of tea and a mince pie after the meeting, they are on the house.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: Following the meeting, it is intended to issue a statement to the effect that the committee is supportive of the vaccine programme. We had a discussion on that yesterday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: There is a debate to be had on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: The draft minutes of last week's meeting of 9 December have been circulated. The minutes also addressed the issues and items of correspondence considered at our private meetings of 1 and 8 December. Are the draft minutes agreed? Agreed. As members do not wish to raise any other issues, we will proceed to our discussion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I welcome all the witnesses who will be presenting to us this morning by video link and who will provide us with a briefing on the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccination. As members are aware, the High-Level Task Force on Covid-19 Vaccination published its national Covid-19 vaccine programme strategy and its accompanying vaccination programme implementation plan yesterday afternoon. I welcome...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I must stop Professor MacCraith. We have the rest of the statement. We are under time pressure as we must leave the committee room within two hours. I apologise for cutting him off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I now invite Professor Butler to make her contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: On behalf of the committee, I thank everyone for the work they have done and continue to do to address the challenges of Covid-19. Today's meeting is evidence of the first glimmer of light. Professor Butler spoke of it being an exciting time filled with hope. There is a glimmer of light that might, with an effective roll-out and take-up of the vaccine programme, see us emerge from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: Again, someone might come back with a response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: The IT system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: We will write to the Department. I am aware that sniffer dogs are being used in Finland as part of an experiment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: Deputy Naughten is our last contributor and he has about two minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: Is there a response on the adequacy of the legislation in terms of the unique identifier?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: Will anyone comment on that? Perhaps the witnesses would come back with a written response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I must bring the meeting to an end. I had a number of questions myself but, unfortunately, I will not have time to ask them. One of the obvious questions relates to what we started off the meeting talking about, namely, the 76,000 plus people who had Covid. Where are they in terms of prioritisation within the programme? Are they included? Many of them have underlying conditions from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Crowe: I thank Professor Butler very much. I appreciate the input of the witnesses into the meeting. It was very useful. It is the start of a conversation. I hope to meet all the witnesses again in the new year. This meeting concludes our work for 2020, thankfully, on a very positive note after a very tough year. The committee will meet again at 11.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 13 January 2021 when we...