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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)

Alan Kelly: Will it be next week?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (3 Feb 2021)

Alan Kelly: 792. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding made available for the provision of eating disorder services within the HSE in each of the years 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively; the amount of the allocated funding used in each year, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5602/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Alan Kelly: 856. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a facility (details supplied) has not received Covid-19 vaccinations given that the facility is a long-term residential centre in cohort 1 of the vaccination schedule; if he will now arrange for vaccination as an urgent priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5859/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: As a country, down through all of our existence we have always shown solidarity with poorer regions of the world. We know there are a number of different variants of Covid-19. During the week, I said that these variants are on tour. The fact that we have introduced certain measures in respect of people coming from Brazil or South Africa does not deal with the fact the variants are all over...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: Before I get on to the main issue I want to ask the Tánaiste a question. The Minister for Health was in the Chamber earlier. I asked him how many vaccines were brought into the country this week. He said 48,000. He is wrong. According to figures given to a number of journalists, in particular Craig Hughes, who has published them in the past few minutes, it was 23,570. How can a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: Will the Government travel this road with us? Is it the case that we do not have the legislation or the infrastructure in place, but that the Government will travel the same road as many of us are suggesting?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: I hope that is the space the Government is going into.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the fact that the Tánaiste said he is not stuck on one policy or one strategy and that he is open to looking at what I and others are proposing now. I predict he will end up coming closer to us. I do not say that everything I say is 100% the way to go, but we are willing to work with the Government to ensure the best strategy. The public have had enough. We cannot go...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: I urge him to come with us on this road and to adopt this strategy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: It may take a little bit of time and it might take legislation but we can do it quickly.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: I mean provided publicly.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: Surely the Minister has that information instantaneously. What sort of an organisation would not know who it has vaccinated? That information must be provided, otherwise we have bigger problems here. It does not make any sense that we do not know how many Covid-19-facing front-line workers have been vaccinated in University Hospital Limerick, UHL, or the Coombe or any other hospital in...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: I will just be asking questions as I will not have enough time for a statement, which the Acting Chairman will be glad to know. I will try to do a quick-fire round of questions for the Minister, if that is okay. I am not trying to catch him out as these are just straight questions to elicit information. I thought that I had six and half minutes. How many do I have?

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: That is not what I was told.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: Okay. Can the Minister tell me how many vaccines came into the country this week? I do not want to know how many people were vaccinated as we have all of those figures.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: As I have only a short time, can the Minister tell me how many vaccines arrived this week?

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: How many vaccines arrived this week?

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: The Minister has committed to two sets of numbers that have not arrived. First, two and a half to three weeks ago, the Minister committed in the daily updates to provide the volume of people who have been vaccinated. Why has this not happened, as we were told that it would happen within a week? On the second set of numbers, the Minister also committed to my colleague, Deputy Duncan...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: I have never seen this before. The real issue is-----

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Alan Kelly: On the point of order, I have never seen nor heard tell of a Minister, who is a member of the Executive, sharing time with a backbencher on such an important issue. It does not bode well. Will the Leas-Cheann Comhairle rule on this matter, because it may set a dangerous precedent?