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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 1031. To ask the Minister for Health if an outbreak of Covid-19 in the workplace is a criterion that is applied in respect of applications by healthcare workers to avail of the temporary accommodation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21987/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 1032. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to applications submitted by healthcare workers for the temporary accommodation scheme to be administered by the HSE directly with the healthcare worker and not the local line manager in order to obviate recurring administrative and communication errors which are creating confusion; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 1033. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1075 of 31 March 2021, if consideration has been given to extend the term of the temporary accommodation scheme as long as Ireland is in a Covid-19 environment as opposed to the current system which requires healthcare workers and their line managers to complete and submit forms on at least a bi-weekly basis; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 1034. To ask the Minister for Health if each CHO area operates the same system for healthcare workers to access and avail of the temporary accommodation scheme; if each CHO area requires healthcare workers to complete the same form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21990/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 1035. To ask the Minister for Health if all contact information for persons applying for the temporary accommodation schemes to CHO regions, hospital groups and National Ambulance Service on the HSE website is up to date; the procedure in place to ensure such information is up to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21991/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 1036. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to providing self-catering accommodation rather than non-self-catering accommodation to healthcare workers availing of the temporary accommodation scheme to ensure such workers have access to cooking facilities including refrigeration facilities and are not reliant on for example take-away food; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fur Farming (28 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 1142. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1983 of 24 March 2021 and pursuant to the Programme for Government 2020, the status of legislation to provide for the introduction of a ban on fur farming which will also include a prohibition on mink farming; the timeline for when this legislation will be finalised; and if he will make a...

Common Agricultural Policy Reform: Motion [Private Members] (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I dtús báire, ba mhaith liom a rá go bhfuil mo thacaíocht 100% taobh thiar den rún seo. Ní saineolaí mé ar an ábhar seo ach tá an t-uafás léite agam agus cloiste agam ó chuir an Teachta Pringle an dua air féin an rún seo a chur os comhair na Dála agus é faoi bhrú. Ba mhaith liom a rá gurb...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: There are four minutes remaining, should the Minister wish to use them, or we can conclude the item.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: We have come to the end of the list of speakers.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: The time is running now for the wrap up.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: When I came in for the changeover, Deputy Carey had finished.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister, but I will have all the details. It is not a question of how much knowledge the Minister or I have. It is a question of the Minister including it in his speech four weeks ago. I know nothing about that now because I am still waiting. I ask the Minister to please give me a commitment that he will do that, and I will be happy with that. Mind you, I have got a...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Lovely. While the Minister of State is on her feet and regarding respite services, I know her heart is in the right place. However, more than a year later the families have no respite. They are going to go under. Surely, it is not beyond the ability of the HSE, or whatever is the appropriate organisation on the ground, to restore safe respite services

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: That is fine, but I am going to come back to this issue. I do not like doing this case-by-case, because I know that Ministers and Ministers of State are very busy. I must come back to it, however, because we have to know about the situation on the ground.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Turning to temporary accommodation for healthcare workers, I would like the Minister to address this issue. Briefly, why has this debacle arisen where two healthcare workers were sent home? I have tried raising this before referring to it here on the floor of the Dáil. I always try to do that first, but I have been told in a reply that that temporary accommodation scheme has not been...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: That was not my question. I had moved on from that. This is about an issue which arose, and that has been in the news on RTÉ and in various newspapers, about two healthcare workers being sent back to direct provision centres, as it happens, because temporary accommodation was not available. I have gone to the trouble of tabling questions on this issue and I am told that the temporary...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister will excuse me if I leave out the "thank yous". We are dealing with a pandemic where we have had almost 250,000 cases and the up-to-date figure for deaths is 4,856. I have always said that vaccination is part of an overall programme. I stand here week after week in utter frustration that there is no overall discussion. I do not blame the Minister for that. The Taoiseach...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I am not going to go through this and I will tell the Minister why. He included it in his speech four weeks ago. When he had finished his speech and I eventually got my turn, I asked him about that call centre. He said he would come back to me with the details. I emailed his office and it came back to say that it would tell us, but it did not. Then it came back to ask which call centre....