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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I appreciate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Does Professor Butler hope it will be some time next week or is she talking about a month?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Would next week be a reasonable date?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I thank Professor Butler for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (13 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Chairman-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (13 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Is it not the purpose of the private meeting this afternoon to discuss all these other issues?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (13 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: The NPHET representatives are waiting. May we start the meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I welcome Dr. Glynn and his colleagues. I thank them for their ongoing work. Dr. Glynn said earlier that we must do all we can to prevent the introduction of new variants and we all agree with that. In that context, I wish to ask some questions about the decisions on mandatory hotel quarantining and the rationale for the selection of those countries included on the list. Will he provide...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Was that statement by the Minister not exactly accurate then if he said that the main criterion at EU level is the new variants?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: On the science underpinning this, if the expert travel advisory group had no knowledge of the new variants in certain EU countries, why would it not include them as part of a precautionary approach?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: To confirm, a combination of those three criteria that Dr. Glynn set down are applied equally to all countries. Is that the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Is that data publicly available?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I mean for Ireland. Are the data and the bases for the selection of countries for Ireland's mandatory hotel quarantine list available to us?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I will briefly ask one last question. Where a case of, for example, the P1 variant is identified, what work is then done on that? Is it done centrally by public health doctors or is it dependent on the strength of the regional public health teams?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I would appreciate that. I thank Dr. Glynn.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: I thank our visitors for their presentation and for attending. I would like to check some of the figures. There was a stark, stand-out figure that the spending on the DTSS dropped by 36% between 2017 and 2020. How do the witnesses account for that? Has that been a problem on the part of the State or is it that fewer dentists are participating in the scheme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Does that include all of 2020?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Regarding changes since FEMPI, what has been the biggest hit to members of the Irish Dental Association? Does it relate to the reduced number of procedures covered or a lower fee for procedures, or a combination of the two?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Have any of the FEMPI cuts been restored or reversed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
Róisín Shortall: Is the Irish Dental Association the only professional group that has not had FEMPI cuts restored?