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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I would appreciate if we could get an early report on that. I return to the issue of bed capacity. There have been calls for some time for a proper programme of hospital extension and new hospital provision in order to increase the number of beds available. There also have been calls for an immediate response to the dire shortage through the provision of quick-build temporary facilities....

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Is Mr. Woods saying he expects to have those beds in place for this winter?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I share the Chair's frustration at not being able to get straight answers because earlier I had asked for an assurance that we were able to secure sufficient quantities of the flu vaccine and it is only in the past 15 minutes that Mr. McCallion has spoken of constraints in the market. Will he explain to us exactly what are those constraints? Is it a question of availability or of cost? I...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I ask Mr. McCallion to wind back a little bit and clarify. He referred to the total available doses. Are we operating on the basis of the available total or the required total?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Does the figure of 1.4 million vaccines refer to the available total or the required total?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Could Mr. McCallion provide the detail on how that figure was calculated, given that it is a relatively small increase on last year's number?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I refer to the rationale behind the numbers the HSE is working towards.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I ask Mr. McCallion again. Will he explain the market constraints on accessing or procuring the vaccines?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I am sorry. I am asking Mr. McCallion for the third time. Is 1.4 million vaccines the available total or the required total?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: In that case, why was Mr. McCallion talking about market constraints?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: What are those challenges?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Is there a shortage? Do we have a difficulty in securing adequate quantities?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: The clear implication of what Mr. McCallion is saying by referencing market constraints is that we cannot procure sufficient quantities and we are limited in the amount we can procure.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I would like more clarity in a written reply.

Employment Rights: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: I thank everybody who has contributed to this debate and those parties and Independent Members who have indicated their support for this motion. In the view of the Social Democrats, this motion is very important. It sets out clearly the weaknesses in our employment protection provisions which give rise to the kind of low pay and poor conditions which, as a modern society, we simply should...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Can we get some fairness in how slots are allocated? Eight were allocated to Sinn Féin.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: There is more than one Opposition party.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (15 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 111. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give consideration to temporarily reallocating staff within her Department in order to deal with the large backlog of Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment arrears in view of the financial hardship facing many on the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16185/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 156. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated demand for the flu vaccine in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16236/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (15 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 157. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by the health service in 2019 to treat fragility fractures and fall-related injuries. [16237/20]