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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Alan Kelly: 2248. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 vaccination appointments have been cancelled per week since 1 March 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20263/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Alan Kelly: 2249. To ask the Minister for Health the considerations that have been given to implementing a risk waiver system for a vaccine (details supplied) for those under sixty years of age who are willing to receive that particular vaccine similar to that done in jurisdictions such as Belgium; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20264/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Alan Kelly: 2250. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a scheme in place to ensure that new entrants to nursing homes will be vaccinated upon arrival following the completion of the Covid-19 vaccination programme in nursing homes earlier in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20265/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Apr 2021)

Alan Kelly: At the NPHET briefing yesterday, we learned that modelling showed that if there was a moderate increase in close contacts from 5 April to 30 September, we would have 578,000 cases or 9,500 cases per day. This is a mathematical equation and I understand that NPHET is simply doing its job. However, the Tánaiste is saying that 3.8 million people will have some form of vaccination by the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Apr 2021)

Alan Kelly: The modelling is out to September not May. How could NPHET not have factored that in? Many more people will be vaccinated by then.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Apr 2021)

Alan Kelly: How will there be more than 15,000 cases a day?

Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

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Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

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Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Alan Kelly: Last week, I asked the Minister how many vaccines would arrive in the last week in March and the first week of April. The Minister stated: I am more than happy to get the Deputy a note on that. What I can tell him is that by the end of March, which is in the next five days, we expect to have received in excess of 1.1 million doses. I never received any note. What is the point in the...

Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Alan Kelly: Are copies of the Minister's speech available?

Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Alan Kelly: They were not there before I came in here. There is no point in them being put outside after the Minister has started.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Alan Kelly: What about pharmacists?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Alan Kelly: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met; and when it next plans to meet. [13096/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Alan Kelly: I will raise only one issue and that is human papillomavirus, HPV, vaccination. We all know through the questions I asked a week and a half ago that it has dropped from 80% to 53.6%, which is deeply worrying. I am passionate about this, have worked on it for years and having lobbied to get HPV brought in for boys. What will we do to catch up? Students have gone back to school. We need to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Alan Kelly: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 last met; and when it next plans to meet. [13095/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Alan Kelly: Will the Taoiseach confirm to the House that children's shoes will be added to the essential retail list? Given the time period of lockdown and retail being closed, everybody knows that this issue is causing serious problems for children in many families, particularly children of a very young age. I ask the Taoiseach to confirm that this issue will be addressed. Antigen testing is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Alan Kelly: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education last met; and when it will next meet. [14480/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Alan Kelly: When it comes to special education, the decision by the Department of Education to freeze current special education teacher levels at this year's level will mean that education in developing schools that are expanding will see a reduction in support. This is not fair. It will leave vulnerable children without vital supports for a prolonged period. School patrons have already raised this...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Mar 2021)

Alan Kelly: The news that 14 days after people are fully vaccinated they can meet indoors is both great and to be welcomed. I have seen directly the impact this news has had on elderly people. It does, however, raise issues about where we go from here because this circle of people will get wider. Where are we going regarding vaccination passports or certificates, green certificates or whatever they...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2021)

Alan Kelly: Having said that, in all seriousness, I want to ask the Taoiseach about the word "offered". By the end of June, will 80% of the population have received a dose of vaccine? Will they, at least, be in a position where they would have received it? It is a key question. I was thrilled and delighted to hear the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, say...