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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: The witnesses might come back with written replies to some of the questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: I have a number of questions but I will not have time to get into them today. Part of what we try to do here is reassure the public. We have heard this morning about the flu vaccine. Mr. Reid was talking in terms of minimising the impact of Covid on the cancer services and screening. In the final minute or two, he might expand on how that his happening. The big message people want to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Reid and his colleagues for their helpful engagement with us this morning. I wish them all well. This meeting is adjourned until 11.30 a.m. next Wednesday, 18 November, when the committee will get an update on the progress on building the new children's hospital and representatives from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland will present...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Budget 2021 will be judged by the way it impacts on citizens' lives, whether it improves, disimproves or has no impact on them. It is important that we talk about real citizens. I want to give the Minister an outline of a letter I got today from a constituent. He says that he is in agony. He has problems with his cervical spine, which he says is busted, and his lumbar spine. He has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: I refer to our draft minutes, correspondence and work programme. Following our private meeting yesterday, I note the minutes of the meetings of 21 and 28 October, the actions relating to the items of correspondence, the actions relating to our work programme and the proposals regarding the establishment of a subcommittee on mental health are agreed. Is that agreed? Agreed. Do members...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Please do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Okay. We will bring the Minister in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, to the meeting. He will provide us with an update on the Covid-19 response and the health provisions of budget 2021 and related matters. The Minister is joined by Mr. Gerry O’Brien, director, Department of Health. I am told the Minister of State at the Department of Health with responsibility for mental health and older people, Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: During this first session, there will be ten minutes for each group, followed by seven minutes. The difficulty is that we have to be out of the room within two hours.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: The Minister might revert with a written reply because we have run out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Perhaps the Minister could respond to that issue in writing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, to the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: The time has expired.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: We have written to the Department about it so the Minister might get that brief.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Yes, very briefly, as we are short on time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Can the Minister reply rather sharpish because we have to be out of here? Perhaps in writing if that is possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: Just one more question and, again, a written reply will suffice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: I suggest that this conversation continues outside of the room. I thank the Minister, the Ministers of State and the Department officials for their helpful engagement here this morning. The Minister has committed to supplying members with a note in response to their questions. I ask him to supply any notes to the committee as well so they can form part of our report for today. At the...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: 205. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if window cleaners are allowed to operate under the current level 5 restrictions in view of the lack of social contact in their work. [32350/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (3 Nov 2020)

Seán Crowe: 578. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if under the latest level 5 restrictions the statutory time frames for the planning process and judicial review process will be suspended or extended, as was the case during the last lockdown. [32383/20]