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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: The standard is being provided when it is needed but people are paying €50,000 or €60,000 per year for their care in many of these homes. I agree on the medical issue and the need to provide PPE when nursing homes do not have it. However, the HSE should be charging the private nursing home sector for PPE because these homes are certainly charging their residents. I am unhappy...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: My experience is the opposite to what Ms McArdle just said. I do not accept that the number relating to the waiting list is not known. I do not mean it is not known to Ms McArdle personally. The waiting list has been growing significantly and the HSE has refused to supply to me the information I sought on the communications between CHO directors and the HSE head director of services for...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank Ms McArdle for her reply. I am trying to understand how the money is given out through the CHO areas. It seems that in the area I live in, which is CHO 8, people in receipt of home care had to die before there were hours available for allocation to somebody else. This is unacceptable. I understand that the "recycling of hours", which, I understand, is the administrative term for...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: I would welcome a note but that is not much of an answer.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: I looked for data for the most recent projected period in 2019 and it was refused to me. I will tell the Chairman the full story.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: The key point is that the HSE refused to give me the data even though there was no bar to giving them to me. That is what is wrong with the agency.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: I will await the data with bated breath.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 44. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if matters raised correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to supports for the tourism sector during the Covid-19 pandemic will be addressed.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16427/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (16 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address correspondence from a person (details supplied) in relation to commuter travel post Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16385/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Emergency Services (16 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 101. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) regarding a proposed landing strip for emergency medical flights will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16454/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Value Added Tax (15 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) regarding the reduction or removal of VAT on medical grade masks for the term of the Covid-19 pandemic will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16150/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Correspondence (14 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 73. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a reply will issue to proposals set out by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15073/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Facilities (14 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the relevant meetings with his officials will be organised to progress a proposal (details supplied) in relation to the provision of an athletics track and municipal stadium which is much needed in the east County Meath area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16033/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Seized Property (14 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 935. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the moneys that are seized through the proceeds of crime can be ring-fenced and distributed to regions for dispersal to front-line community services that deal directly with the impacts of crimes; her plans on the matter; her views on such proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15341/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Bereavement Care (14 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 999. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate and address the unacceptable miscommunication that has taken place between HIQA and his Department in regard to the availability of a bereavement service for persons who have lost loved ones in a nursing home, such as a person (details supplied); his plans to ensure that his officials respond directly to the person in respect of this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (14 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1095. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a query raised in correspondence regarding assisted human reproduction from a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15072/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Information and Quality Authority (14 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1116. To ask the Minister for Health if he will order an independent investigation into the circumstances of a death in a nursing home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15224/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (14 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1119. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance will be offered to persons (details supplied) regarding the urgent need for an expansion in adult disability services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15241/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (14 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1152. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance will be offered to a person (details supplied) in relation to the urgent need for an expansion in adult disability services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15422/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1299. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) on use of pelvic mesh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15956/20]