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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Will Ms Ní Sheaghdha give an example of this? What underlying conditions?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Ms Ní Sheaghdha. She did say that. I will be more specific in my question, if she does not mind, to help me with my own understanding. Will Ms Ní Sheaghdha name one or two conditions that are contraindications? Is diabetes a contraindication? Will Ms Ní Sheaghdha name one or two conditions where there is a contraindication with the flu vaccine?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I fully understand and respect that. I am just trying to understand how the list of contraindications is communicated on an annual basis, how clear it is and what those barriers are. I totally respect there are some barriers for some people. Of course, the issue is that a healthcare worker who gets the flu will be deemed, I assume, to be at risk of having Covid-19 given the overlap of the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree completely with Ms Ní Sheaghdha on this.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is great.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the witnesses. To go back to some of the data from the HPSC, it may have been helpful to set out very clearly at the outset that we have all been using the same data from 11 July. Of the 26,076 Covid cases, 8,347, or 32%, were healthcare workers, with 319 hospitalised, 49 admitted to ICU and, very tragically, seven deaths. We are agreed that 30% of the cases were in nursing...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: How long is it taking at the moment for healthcare workers to get results of test? Are they all back at this stage within 24 hours for healthcare workers?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Ms Ní Sheaghdha mentioned that Cherry Orchard Hospital had a laboratory playing a positive role. Are all the acute hospital laboratories being used in this way? Is there any update on that?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: This may be a question better targeted at the HSE at the second session this afternoon but I will elicit an opinion from Ms Ní Sheaghdha's own perspective. At this stage, have all the student nurses who will qualify this year been offered full-time positions that are not via agencies? Have other healthcare professionals like physiotherapists, occupational therapists and all those who...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We are learning more and more every week and we had Dr. David Nabarro back here some weeks ago talking about the long-term implications of having had and recovered from Covid-19. He has recovered loosely because one of the ongoing features is long-term fatigue. Ms Murphy alluded to that initially and I may come back to it. From a policy perspective, does Ms Ní Sheaghdha feel there is...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: As a simple example, I have had to take three breaks from wearing my mask to have some water. I totally respect what Ms Ní Sheaghdha is saying. I will deliberately put policy aside as I come to Ms Murphy. I am last with questions, and that is why I have left what I want to say until the end of this session. The committee has had 16 public sessions and it is my understanding and...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank Ms Murphy for outlining that for us; the committee really appreciates it. It is probably appropriate to leave it there for this session. I again thank Ms Murphy and all the witnesses.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I thank the witnesses for coming in today and for all the work they have been doing during this period. The secretariat did an excellent report compiling the various written submissions. I thank them for that because it shows the complexity of what we are talking about and how many people with different issues in their lives are impacted. I made some notes as I went through it. When we...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Would Dr. McCarthy mind speaking up a little bit as it is difficult to hear her in this Chamber?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is exactly the reason I asked the question. It can be very difficult for outsiders who are not living with a condition or going through that as a family to really understand the importance of the supports that are being provided. I thank Dr. McCarthy for taking the time to do that. With specific regard to motor neurone disease, as has been said, the condition progresses very quickly so...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree. Will Dr. Conaty provide some examples of the types of things about which he is talking?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: People who had been attending the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities and who could not finish their courses or internships may have suffered a significant regression with regard to their development and ability to participate. Is that the sort of thing Dr. Conaty means?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: In his statement, Dr. Conaty also states, "the Department of Health published guidance for decision-makers in the health service on how access to critical care should be prioritised during the pandemic" and "The Commission has reviewed this guidance, and is concerned that there are potentially profound implications for the human rights and equality of people with disabilities, older people,...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Will Dr. Conaty provide a specific example of such a potentially profound implication?

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (16 Jul 2020)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I congratulate my colleague from the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response, Deputy Foley, who is now Minister for Education and Skills. I wish her the very best with the work of her Department. I also congratulate the Minister, Deputy Harris, and the Ministers of State, Deputies Madigan and Niall Collins. There is a lot of work to be done and I wish them the best. We have talked a lot...