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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (2 Jun 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Duncan Smith: ...of the IHCA on the reconfiguration of any new deal with a specific focus on clearing the backlog of public patients? Has Mr. Varley formed a view on that? How can he help, and how would that influence any new deal? Second, Mr. Varley mentioned in his opening statement that the original rationale for the hospital deal no longer pertains. None of us are prognosticators in terms of what...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

...response in capacity terms, and I can talk more about that, will be for a more medium-term view. We have to look at the coming winter, getting through that, the risks associated with Covid and flu being present and the demand on capacity, which we know is already constrained and, at the moment, is running at 92%. If we were to return all the work that is currently being done in the...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (27 May 2020) See 2 other results from this debate

Simon Harris: ...requires an in-depth look rather than a representative of the construction industry just deciding in this Chamber what it will look like and then having to retract that. With regard to the flu vaccine, I will ask NPHET, as the Deputy has requested. I cannot give the Deputy the assurance he requests in respect of the National Maternity Hospital because I am in the middle of a...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (27 May 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...also for future outbreaks of new viruses. This means building up a much better and permanent public health infrastructure to test for, track, trace and treat infectious diseases, not just Covid. Linked to this should be a new focus on well-being, for example through an enhanced vaccine programme such as the enhanced flu vaccine programme for this winter, which we have planned already....

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

...is passed by asymptomatic persons. The mass testing of residents has seen asymptomatic residents and staff test positive. Nursing homes have huge levels of experience in managing the outbreak of flu and norovirus every winter and have extensive experience, both clinical and practical, in implementing infection prevention control measures, but a global pandemic is on a different scale...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Duncan Smith: ...be back in terms of some regular business and try to process applications for citizenship. If we are on a downward trend for Covid-19, and hopefully we are, there are fears of a second wave and a flu outbreak in the winter. Have Ms Buckley or any senior officials in her Department considered a fast-tracking approach for citizenship or a citizenship amnesty for asylum seekers in this...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...suspected of contracting Covid-19 between February and May 2020 were admitted to hospital for treatment? I know the percentage of residents from such homes admitted to hospital during a typical flu season is quite low. We all know that Covid-19 poses a much more serious health risk than a flu and I would have thought the percentage of residents being admitted to hospital should be...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (21 May 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...a positivity rate of 2.5%, a decrease on last week but still a little too high. Testing has been ramped up to meet the scale of this crisis, and this week the HSE reached its target of having the capacity to test 15,000 people every day, with capacity of up to 100,000 per week. As the Chief Medical Officer said on Tuesday, we need to be fluid. We have more than sufficient capacity right...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Poultry Industry (20 May 2020)

Matt Carthy: 864. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of poultry farms affected by avian flu to date in 2020; his plans to provide compensation to those farmers affected; the further supports his Department will provide those farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6011/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

...can help shorten the time to diagnosis by coming earlier. In addition to the enhancements that have been made to testing and tracing, we are advising individuals who are experiencing cold and flu-like symptoms not to put off the phone call to the doctor to see how they are until tomorrow but to make contact early. That gives us a greater chance, as do the improvements Mr. Breslin has...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by HSE Officials (19 May 2020)

...asymptomatic transmission and atypical presentation. I expect that will inform our own testing strategy in residential care settings from here on. Wider measures include wider provision of the flu vaccine which, in line with other countries, we are now making available to younger age groups for this coming winter to reduce the reservoir of flu in the wider population, which would...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (13 May 2020)

Matt Carthy: 924. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports he plans to provide to poultry farms that have been affected by avian flu; the measures he will pursue to reduce instances of avian flu; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4822/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (7 May 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Simon Harris: I agree that we need to avoid a bad flu season at the same time as Covid. The Deputy will have seen my comments that I am engaging with Departments for a much more expansive immunisation programme around flu, removing barriers and so on. It has also been though the HSE board. I will return to her with an update shortly. I met Mental Health Reform today at the Deputy's request and...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (7 May 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Catherine Connolly: ...has not happened, not for clinical reasons but because we simply did not rise to it in terms of structure and money. This situation did not come upon us from nowhere. We prepared in 2007 for a flu pandemic. I understand there was an exchange last December between Deputy Micheál Martin and the Taoiseach regarding an emergency co-ordination centre and an emergency plan. The Taoiseach...

Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (30 Apr 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Holly Cairns: ...Agriculture Organization has warned of disruptions to supply chains. Closer to home, the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association has pointed to our flour shortage, and a fresh outbreak of avian flu is causing an egg shortage. We have seen the impact that panic buying and stockpiling is having on food banks. The Committee on World Food Security has stressed the importance of...

Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Brendan Howlin: ...their employees or their customers becoming victims of Covid-19 if they are not insured against it. We must have a solution to that, some sort of indemnity or insurability. One cannot sue if one gets the flu when visiting the local supermarket. We need to address that issue or businesses will not re-open when this phase passes. I ask the Minister to look at the issue of insurance...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (Resumed) (23 Apr 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Joe McHugh: ...next period until we find a vaccine, there is going to be a risk. We are going to go into another winter period potentially with no vaccine and we are going to face further risk in terms of this flu potentially still being there. I will leave nothing undone with respect to ensuring we do not put students at risk and we will be working within the public health advice. I am reaching out...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (23 Apr 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Leo Varadkar: ...where there are great staff, where there has been PPE available and there are single or double rooms, and where everyone has done everything right, we have still seen the virus get in just as flu does in the winter season. It is important to bear that in mind.

Health (Covid-19): Statements (16 Apr 2020)

Alan Farrell: ...and their families. It is appropriate that the House would consider how we might support that sector and improve public and private facilities throughout the State to ensure even the annual flu season is tackled in a most appropriate setting, but also most acutely, in this environment during a pandemic, that we are mindful of what investment we can bring to bear as a Legislature in future...

Seanad: An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19) 2020: An Dara Céim - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (27 Mar 2020)

Ian Marshall: ...social-media savvy individuals depend on the marts for social interaction with friends and neighbours. There is also the issue, which I believe has not been truly recognised, whereby as currency fluctuates with the impact of Covid-19, on an island that currently imports some 80% of feedstock and raw material from international markets, we could face increases in the prices of feed and...