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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I am talking about community-based care that would be nurse-led care for chronic illness management, which takes up about 70% of healthcare activity. There is a commitment in Sláintecare to move that out of hospitals and into nurse-led care within primary care. When will we see action in that area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: When will we see some of that chronic illness care being nurse led, given that nurses in the main are best qualified to lead the management of chronic illness?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I am sure the Minister will accept that it is time to move beyond pilot schemes. We need to start implementing Sláintecare in a serious way. I must say that the service plan this year is disappointing in that respect. My next question is on public health doctors and the pertinent need to have proper retrospective tracing. When will we see a resolution of the public health doctors'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: My final question relates to vitamin D. Last week, a group of experts and varying different disciplines of doctors appeared before the committee. They made a compelling case for the recommendation of a minimum level of vitamin D supplementation. Will the Minister give that some serious consideration? It seems that it has been put on the back boiler by NPHET. There is, however, compelling...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Briefly, studies have been done on vitamin D in this country related to bone and muscle health, which is obviously a completely different area. Anybody at the committee who listened to the evidence presented by that group of experts last week cannot but believe we need to make clear recommendations on that to the public in respect of Covid-19. I ask the Minister to please brief us on that issue.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I rise to speak to this group of amendments and, in particular, amendments Nos. 33, 36 and 38 in my name, on behalf of the Social Democrats. All Opposition parties are represented in the context of this group of amendments because we are very much on the same page and have the same opinion on what needs to be done in order to increase our firepower in responding to Covid. It is quite clear...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I understood that Deputies would be called in the order of the amendments they have submitted under this grouping.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Róisín Shortall: Is that not the convention?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Contracts (25 Feb 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to his statement of 17 December 2020 in respect of political involvement in the purchase of ventilators from a company (details supplied), if in his role as Taoiseach he had signed off on the deal at the time; the due diligence carried out by him at the time on the company in question; and if a response to the question asked...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Feb 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 34. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons who have arrived into Ireland from Brazil in each week from 1 January 2021 to date; the reason the weekly aviation statistics published on gov.ie do not include figures for Brazil despite reports that the three cases of the Brazil P1 variant of Covid-19 recently identified in Ireland are directly associated with...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (25 Feb 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance if guidance and advice will be provided to the public in respect of charges that are payable on items purchased online from the UK; the permissible taxes; the permissible customs duty; the permissible other charges on these transactions; the recourse for consumers who are overcharged under these headings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10928/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 Feb 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently investigate a matter regarding a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10777/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (25 Feb 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 187. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding a carer’s payment appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10930/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (25 Feb 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if data are available regarding arrests, prosecutions and convictions for the theft of catalytic converters and the handling of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10778/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (25 Feb 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 299. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 844 of 17 February 2021, if private providers of Covid-19 antigen tests are required to report their results to the Chief Medical Officer given that the tests do not go to a laboratory; the way these antigen tests are accounted for in daily case figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10776/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts (25 Feb 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 300. To ask the Minister for Health if there was political involvement in the decision to purchase ventilators from a company (details supplied); if he signed off on the deal at the time; and the due diligence carried out on the company in question prior to awarding a contract. [10780/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Feb 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 333. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that arrangements are in place for administration of the Covid-19 vaccine when numbers are expected to reach 1.2 million per month in April, May and June 2021; the number of staff being recruited; the date they are expected to be in their post; the number of vaccines which will be in use; and the intended daily capacity in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Feb 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 334. To ask the Minister for Health the groups of persons who are exempted from quarantining after arriving into Ireland; the arrangements to ensure that these groups do not import the virus into the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10932/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Feb 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 335. To ask the Minister for Health the details of his response to the arrival of the Brazil P1 variant of Covid-19 into Ireland which was announced on 19 February 2021; the steps he is taking to minimise the spread of this variant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10933/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Feb 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 336. To ask the Minister for Health if the three cases of the Brazil P1 variant identified in Ireland are directly associated with recent travel from Brazil; the steps he is taking to prevent further importation of this variant and others through travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10935/21]