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

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister for his response to the question we discussed on cancer screening. I have sent the names to him. I have a very brief question on the national children's hospital. After much discussion, construction has restarted. I would have thought the hospital would be a priority project. As I often say to my daughter, it is the thing that she is going to be paying for out of her...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Primary Medical Certificates (27 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance if the criteria for the primary medical certificate will be reviewed and qualification criteria eased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8029/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the phase under which educational services and facilities that deliver measures for children with disabilities will be allowed reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8174/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 377. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of passengers who arrived through airports and seaports to date in May 2020; and the number who filled out a public health passenger locator form. [8177/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 378. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the level of compliance of passengers that arrived here in filling out the public health passenger locator form since it was introduced; the number that filled it in; the number that refused; and the number exempt as a total of the number of passengers that have arrived. [8178/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 626. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the health workers that have contracted Covid-19 including those that have died by grade and location, that is, acute, community and so on, age range and whether they are directly employed or employed by a contractor or agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8169/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (27 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 627. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body responsible for the construction of a Covid-19 implementation plan inclusive of resources, human and financial for congregational settings; the way in which the plan was drafted; the person or body that drafted the plan; when it was completed; when it was shared with all facilities and service providers in congregational settings; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 628. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the proposed catch-up programme for screening services such as BreastCheck, CervicalCheck and BowelScreen for the thousands of scheduled screening tests which have been postponed or missed due to Covid-19; the details of additional capacity confirmed to ensure that this catch-up can take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 845. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken to help deal with those persons waiting to sit their driver tests; his plans to get testing back up and running using innovations to protect testers and those being tested; and his further plans to clear the backlog of those awaiting testing. [8175/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (27 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 1076. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will work with local authority chief executives and the Minister for Health to ensure that local authorities can source, secure and supply mobile homes for self-isolation as a means of preventative health action to proactively combat Covid-19 for Travellers living in overcrowded accommodation (details supplied); and...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for being here today and offer my sympathies to the families of those who have been bereaved and those resident or working in the nursing home sector. I have some questions for Mr. Daly relating to his statement and correspondence we received today. It strikes me that the nursing home sector showed a degree of foresight and planning and tried to flag issues at a very...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: To prepare the hospital sector, large numbers of patients were discharged but they were discharged to the nursing home sector with no plan.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: At the time those responsible were preparing the acute hospitals, they were transferring large numbers of patients from those hospitals to the nursing home sector. These patients were to become residents but they were not tested. Was any protocol given to nursing homes? Were nursing homes instructed that these people had to isolate for 14 days? Did those discharging people check in...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Nursing homes were not instructed to - that is my point.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I am looking at correspondence sent by Mr. Daly on 10 March. He requested that all discharges would undergo a full risk assessment, a full medical assessment and be tested for Covid-19. I have been told by the Minister for Health as well that the protocol dictates that a patient discharged must have two negative tests prior to transfer. That did not happen in March. Am I right?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: At the same time, staff were being aggressively recruited, to use the term Mr. Daly used. He called on the HSE to "desist from targeting the recruitment of staff from the private nursing home sector". These staff were being recruited by the HSE to go to the acute hospital sector at the same time as large numbers of patients were being transferred out. Is that right?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: Nursing homes were losing staff at the same time as they were being asked to take on additional patients.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: None of these patients was tested. The medical assessment and risk assessment that nursing homes had looked for were not taking place in March.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: I am looking at correspondence from Mr. Daly. Chairman, I want to point out again, on the record, that we received a huge volume of correspondence at 9.30 this morning. It is not helpful. It is more helpful for us in doing our work if we get it in good time. I am looking at correspondence from Mr. Daly dated 17 March sent to the Department. Mr. Daly stated: We require a commitment to...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: The first meeting was at the end of March, but how many times had Mr. Daly requested that meeting? We know that Nursing Homes Ireland issued a press release on 25 March, and we know from the correspondence that Mr. Daly made a large number of requests, but that meeting did not happen until the end of March.