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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 700. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residents living in nursing homes reported by HIQA to the HSE as those centres with poor compliance with key regulations, as those services were at increased risk of Covid-19 outbreaks as per HIQA evidence before the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response on 26 May 2020 who died from Covid-19 related illnesses as a proportion of all those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Jun 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 723. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 10 October 2019, the progress made with the review; when the review will conclude; if the findings of the review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9490/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)

Pearse Doherty: In response to Deputy O'Rourke's question regarding those who had booked holidays for later in the summer, Mr. Burgess mentioned that the advice may change. Is that a signal to people who have holidays booked for late August that they may still be able to travel abroad for those holidays?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)

Pearse Doherty: From the Department's point of view, although Mr. Breslin may also wish to answer, what are the triggers or what criteria will need to be met to allow for people to travel? What would need to change for people to be able to take the holidays they may have booked for late August?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)

Pearse Doherty: When Ryanair, Aer Lingus and others are saying that half their flights will start up again on 1 July, does Mr. Burgess expect the advice from the Department to be that no non-essential travel be undertaken?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)

Pearse Doherty: With regard to the locator forms, who makes the call and follows up to check on whether people are self-isolating?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Does Mr. Breslin know many staff are in that unit?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)

Pearse Doherty: How many calls are done weekly?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I cannot remember where I heard it, and I am not sure if it is correct, but I thought that the border management unit had only 50 or so staff. Is that within the ballpark?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)

Pearse Doherty: How does that compare with the fact that 11,000 passengers have come through in the three weeks between 1 May and 23 May, with 33% of them being exempt? That is 2,500 calls that should have been made per week. Are 1,000 people being missed every week?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)

Pearse Doherty: What if somebody says, on the second day of the two-week period, that he or she was down at the beach with his or her family for the weekend? What would happen there and what would be the protocol?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I turn to Mr. Breslin in respect of the restrictions and the discussion relating to mandatory isolation, given that this is just guidance at the moment and there is no requirement on somebody to self-isolate, despite NPHET recommending that two months ago. Will that happen or is the idea of mandatory isolation finished? Mr. Breslin stated it is being looked at in a number of Departments but...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Has Mr. Breslin any indication of when that decision will be made?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)

Pearse Doherty: As an indication to the wider sector, and I fully agree we have to be guided by the public health advice at all times, I turn to the requirement to self-isolate for two weeks on entry to the State regardless of which jurisdiction one is coming from or whether the virus there has a lower R-nought rate than we have at that point. Does Mr. Breslin expect that to be the position until the end of...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Has Mr. Breslin any idea of when we are likely to have sight of a roadmap in respect of the restrictions of entry into our jurisdiction? Given the low levels of support that exist in terms of grant aid, many people have asked me whether, while the tourism season is gone this year, it is gone for next year too. They say that if the restrictions continue, they will not be able to stay afloat....

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Pearse Doherty: With respect, the time of my colleagues is protected. I asked the Acting Chairman for eight minutes for toing and froing-----

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Four, four and four. Three fours.

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Pearse Doherty: I will take eight minutes for toing and froing with the Minister and will leave four minutes each for Deputies Mairéad Farrell, O'Reilly and Ó Broin. Today's Revised Estimates are unlike any others that have been presented before this Dáil in modern times. When the income supports were put forward by the caretaker Government, they differed from the ones we suggested to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Medical Certificates (27 May 2020)

Pearse Doherty: 578. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal has been refused a primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7729/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (Resumed) (26 May 2020)

Pearse Doherty: Ten minutes. I will begin by expressing my sympathy and condolences to everyone who has lost someone during this pandemic as well as to all of those working on the front line in our nursing homes and the organisations that our guests represent who are trying to suppress the pandemic in our communities. As of yesterday, there were 1,606 confirmed deaths as a result of Covid-19....