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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: At present, the uptake level is 65%. I accept that a point was made in the briefing that it may be about data and data input. If we are looking at low rates of take-up of the HPV vaccine, are we sticking with the provision of the vaccine through the school model? Is there an option to increase availability through a walk-in scenario in pharmacies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I will turn to AstraZeneca if I have time. Last week, when the committee discussed matters, the changes in the advice around the AstraZeneca vaccine had come through. As I understand it, the current advice is that we will continue with AstraZeneca with the older cohort and those in a vulnerable position or at high risk but as in other EU countries, those who are not in those cohorts and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: How many people out of the 200,000 or so people who received that first dose are we talking about?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank everyone who is here for attending. I do not want to spend too much time on the AstraZeneca vaccine because it has been covered quite well by other Deputies and the witnesses. Before I start my other questions, however, I am aware that some European countries have decided that if a person is halfway through the process and has taken the first dose, he or she will not continue with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Is that the same in every age cohort?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Absolutely. That seems to make sense. Does Dr. Glynn have any sense of how many people will be in the cohort we are talking about who already received the more than 200,000 doses that have been given?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: A number of Deputies have asked about the reopening and the pathway out of this. We have talked a little about businesses and sport. One of the areas around which I have received the most correspondence is maternity care and access to services during pregnancy and birth and labour. I am aware that hospitals are obviously a nucleus of activity when we are talking about a pandemic. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: That is exactly right. Somebody told me yesterday that she had given birth and was in the hospital on her own for the day. She would have liked to have her partner there and was simply not able to do that. When will we see that in the roll-out? I do not necessarily want a date. When in the framework of the roll-out will that particular service be more available to people, however?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Dr. Glynn referred to the conducting pilot studies in respect of antigen testing. That issue, particularly as it relates to nursing homes, has arisen at previous meetings. Can Dr. Glynn expand on the pilot studies and how they are going?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I have only one minute left. I might try and get one quick question in before I finish. I would like to state that the news that there have been no new cases in nursing homes is certainly a massive good news story.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: No new outbreaks. Fair enough. Earlier, Dr. Glynn noted that we need an adequate amount of time between phases of reopening in order to assess the impact of that reopening. Could he give us a sense of what that adequate amount of time would be? Would it be 14 or 20 days on each occasion there is a new phase in the reopening What does he consider to be an adequate period to facilitate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: In his opening statement, Mr. Hourihan spoke about the lack of a review over the past decade, and the lack of data available to him. Given the 31% decrease in DTSS contracts, have there been any data collection or mapping exercises of how this impacts low-income household areas or rural areas? Do we have a good understanding of the lack of service provision and how far people have to travel?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: That is helpful. There is a fledgling scheme among GPs to counteract that problem by facilitating the provision of services in rural areas or areas of deprivation. I presume there is no such scheme for dentists.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Mr. Hourihan mentioned his interaction, or the lack thereof, with the Department since November . I wish to discuss that issue from a little further back. The backdrop to much of what the committee has been discussing relates to progressing Sláintecare. Smile agus Sláinte was published in early 2019 and Mr. Hourihan was quite critical of the document at that time. I would like...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I take Dr. O'Neill's point but I am thinking more from a preventative mindset and that, at first-step level, having more people providing the beginnings of orthodontic care might stop those lists growing. Obviously, it does not solve the problem right now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I have one more question. In the context of Smile agus Sláinte, does Dr. O'Neill agree that there may be some contradiction contained in the independent practice documents? I understand that what is proposed comes from a frustration at the failures in the current system, but it moves our dental system to a privatised model. Is there a kind of a fundamental misalignment between the two...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Banking Sector (1 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. Not to be coy about this but I see a banking forum as a first step to talking about public banking, something for which Green Party has pushed for a long time. It would speak to issues around regional access to banking. It is something to which 21 countries in Europe have access, but we do not. We do not have that level of competition or choice...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Banking Sector (1 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Deputy Verona Murphy for raising the issue of orthodontics because it comes across my desk all the time. Access to training for orthodontists is an issue we must address as well. I will talk about a banking forum. A few weeks ago, the Dáil debated the current banking situation in Ireland. I think we would all agree that we are at a moment of great difficulty. We had the...

Prime Time Investigates Programme on Department of Health: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I echo what many Deputies have said by acknowledging that the Minister of State strikes me as a person who is dedicated to providing suitable services for children with disability. The enormity of what the "RTÉ Investigates" programme has brought to light was somewhat overshadowed by the issue that arose in the Beacon Hospital last week. I expect that we will still be talking about...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (1 Apr 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: 253. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the lack of provision of childcare services for babies aged 6 to 12 months in the Dublin 1, 3, 7 and 9 areas, respectively that have developed since Pobal published its Early Years Sector Profile report in November 2019; his plans to conduct updated research into the capacity...