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

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for their attendance.

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

Colm Burke: I presume I am.

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

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and the work they are doing. I will refer to the report of the profile of Covid-19 cases in healthcare workers in Ireland. On looking at the report, I note that 58.5% of the 88,260 healthcare workers who were identified as positive for Covid were in the HSE east region. While there is a larger number of healthcare workers in that area, in...

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

Colm Burke: We have seen the breakdown of numbers on nursing homes but is there a similar breakdown for hospitals where there was a higher incidence compared to other hospitals of a similar size throughout the country?

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

Colm Burke: Has any effort been made to identify where errors were made as a result of which healthcare workers contracted Covid-19? What measures now need to be put in place to make sure there is no reoccurrence? We have a lot of information and data. Have we analysed those data? For instance, some healthcare facilities, including 56% of nursing homes, had no positive cases of Covid, while many...

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

Colm Burke: Of the 8,260 workers who were diagnosed with Covid, a number were associated with a location in which there had been an outbreak. Some 4,634 contracted Covid independent of an outbreak. Has the source of these 4,634 infections been identified? Page 6 of the report says that 4,634 were not linked to an outbreak.

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

Colm Burke: Will Dr. Cuddihy give me a more detailed breakdown of that 4,634?

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

Colm Burke: That would be helpful because it is not in the report.

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

Colm Burke: I will again raise an issue I raised this morning. It relates to the number of healthcare workers who have been identified as having Covid. Some 2,878 of these had an underlying medical condition. That figure is very high. Where a person had an underlying health problem, were serious efforts made to ensure they were not put at risk? Was a protocol in this regard available to each and...

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

Colm Burke: When was that devised or made available to the people in charge of the various facilities around the country, be it hospitals, healthcare facilities or congregated settings?

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

Colm Burke: Does Dr. Sisson think more could have been done, in the sense that 2,878 people identified with Covid were people with underlying medical conditions?

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

Colm Burke: Do we have a number out of the 2,878 people who were in that category?

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

Colm Burke: We hear various percentages referred to in the context of the 8,000 healthcare workers identified with Covid in this country. There are various figures. What is Dr. Sisson's view of the percentage of the total healthcare workforce? We got a breakdown from her in the report on the profile of Covid-19 cases among healthcare workers and it cuts across all areas from administration to care...

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

Colm Burke: Is that taking the staff in both the public and private facilities?

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

Colm Burke: Is the 8,000 not made up of people from private nursing homes as well?

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

Colm Burke: Therefore, if we take the 135,000, plus around 30,000 in the nursing home sector, is Dr. Sisson talking about 8,000 out of that total number?

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

Colm Burke: Could we get a breakdown of the numbers who were not in the workforce but who are identified as part of the 8,000?

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

Colm Burke: That identified with Covid.

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

Colm Burke: I thank all the organisations for the work they have done in very challenging times. With more than 6,000 people in residential settings, it is significant that people were protected so well. I believe only 166 people were identified as having Covid. It is welcome that the number is so small in these very challenging settings. I compliment all the staff working in them. I wish to focus...

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

Colm Burke: My point is that there is going be huge growth in the number of people over 65 in the next ten years. It is going to go from 640,000 up to 1 million. The big issue is the challenge about having the numbers of people to provide the support. In the past 12 months when we had full employment, there were great challenges for every organisation to get people to provide the services. That is...