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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Sep 2020) See 2 other results from this answer

David Cullinane: 176. To ask the Minister for Health if adequate stockpiles of the flu vaccine have been secured; the reason for the delay in securing these and rolling out the flu vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25703/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (23 Sep 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

David Cullinane: ...be treated with respect. The Minister and the HSE should be here today. I put the HSE on notice that there is anecdotal evidence coming to Deputies from all parties about a delay in the roll-out of the flu vaccine. I do not know the reason for that. I am not even sure if that is the case or what the actual delay involves, but people have been told that by pharmacists and GPs and we...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)

...and so on. We should not build a strategy on the imminent advent of a vaccine. We might have to wait for it and it may not be effective on those who need it most. We may compare it to the flu vaccine, for example, which has worked less well or not so well on old people as young people. I believe Ireland should allow a controlled spread of the disease among people below 60 years...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme (22 Sep 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 772. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to compensate persons that developed narcolepsy as a result of the swine flu vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25154/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (22 Sep 2020) See 1 other result from this answer

Francis Noel Duffy: 801. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that general practitioner practices are facing quantity restrictions on the amount of flu vaccines they can receive; the impact this will have on the demand for vaccines in the coming months; the measures that are in place to increase the quantity of vaccines being delivered by manufacturers; and if he will make a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2020)

Vincent P Martin: General practitioners and pharmacists have grave concerns for their patients about the initial delivery and roll-out of the flu vaccine. Delivery of the flu vaccine has already been delayed and, worse still, the number of vaccines that some doctors have been told they will receive is tiny. I have spoken to GPs and pharmacists, one of whom has received 20 vaccines. One large GP practice...

Climate Action: Statements (17 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: ...Climate action on its own is heavy and weighty, never mind the existence of a pandemic and the budgetary and fiscal situation facing the country, although, following the First World War and the Spanish flu the east coast of the United States went through the roaring 20s for seven or eight years and then hit the darkest depression that has ever hit anybody. This generation needs minding,...

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Michael McGrath: ...over the period ahead, particularly when we look at the current trajectory of the virus and the latest figures that have been published. Further resources have recently been agreed to, for example, extend the scope of the flu vaccination to vulnerable categories. Yesterday, the Government approved €600 million for the 2020-2021 winter initiative to ensure our that health service...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2020)

Jackie Cahill: ...times but in the Covid scenario that we are now living in, it is utterly unacceptable. I ask that some of the €600 million that was announced yesterday, as we are heading into the winter flu season, would be used to reopen the emergency department in Nenagh for 24 hours a day. This would take pressure off University Hospital Limerick, reducing the overcrowding and decreasing...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Final Report of Nursing Homes Expert Panel (16 Sep 2020)

Ms Brigid Doherty: It is in our recommendations but what is very important with the winter ahead is to encourage everybody to have the flu vaccination. We hope all healthcare staff and anybody working in a nursing home will take up the flu vaccination. We need to encourage everybody, including members of the public, to take up the flu vaccination because otherwise we will possibly have...

Priority Questions: Health Services (15 Sep 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

David Cullinane: 31. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he has undertaken or will undertake as part of the winter plan to protect capacity in the health service, to ensure maximum possible uptake of the flu vaccine, secure sufficient staffing levels and bed availability, deliver Covid-19, non-Covid-19 and catch-up care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23639/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Maurice Quinlivan: ...and today, unfortunately, there are 69 people, although they were not all on trolleys because the nurses told me they ran out of trolleys. The winter is approaching. It is now autumn and the flu season is upon us. What is the Taoiseach going to do? Is the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, going to intervene? We understand building is going on and new modular units are being built, but I...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Sep 2020) See 1 other result from this answer

Alan Kelly: 96. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to increase the uptake for the flu vaccine the 2020-21 winter season; if his Department has prepared analysis into the costing of providing the flu vaccine to all citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23652/20]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Sep 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...will be like. We cannot know for sure to what extent Covid will be an issue during the winter and whether the current number of cases will continue to rise or fall back. We do not know what the flu season will look like. Indications from the southern hemisphere, where it starts, and the vaccination programme we are introducing will perhaps mean that the flu season this winter will not...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (9 Sep 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Maurice Quinlivan: ...the hospital. Unfortunately, my home county of Limerick has experienced a dramatic and concerning increase in Covid cases. The increase, coupled with the issues at the hospital, and the upcoming flu season will create the perfect storm that could ultimately overwhelm our overstretched hospital staff. I ask the Minister to intervene. He will say there is not, but there is an embargo...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Sep 2020) See 1 other result from this answer

Alan Kelly: 297. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the 'flu vaccine programme in 2020; the additional costs arising from the recently announced measures; the number of doses expected to be provided in 2020; the number of doses ordered; the estimated cost to provide the 'flu vaccine free to all; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22911/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

...pandemics of this kind and we have to develop a kind of sense of proportion, which I am afraid we have forgotten over the last century since the previous comparable pandemic, which was the Spanish flu pandemic between 1918 and 1921.

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Cancer Screening: Motion [Private Members] (8 Sep 2020)

Róisín Shortall: ...regular services. I wonder why we are requiring anybody looking for a test to go to a GP first. Why not go directly to a test centre? I cannot understand that. Why are we diverting so many people to GPs for the flu vaccine rather than having school-based programmes or extending pharmacy programmes? The Minister will be tested on the extent to which he succeeds in making the case for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Sep 2020)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...proclamations of admiration for front-line workers, is that this will mean some 200 beds being lost to the system. This is happening when we know we are facing into very difficult times with the flu season, Covid-19, etc. I wrote to the Taoiseach regarding this matter. I have also written to the Tánaiste and to Mr. Paul Reid, CEO of the HSE. There must be an intervention in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Sep 2020) See 1 other result from this answer

Danny Healy-Rae: 1021. To ask the Minister for Health if the 'flu vaccine will be made available to all schoolgoing children free of charge; if so, if it will be made available before they return to school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21188/20]