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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: I thank all involved for the work they are doing and have done in the course of the past year. I hope that their hard work will pay dividends. Can the witnesses emphatically state that all vaccines currently available, in use and approved throughout the country, are equally safe and effective regardless of where they are manufactured?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: Since availability of supply is a major contributor to the speed with which the vaccinations take place, how is the full extent of the requirement in a particular area determined?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: Is there any basis for concern among the various cohorts at the present time about the safety of the vaccines as it applies to them personally, given that there have been changes in recent times that shifted the emphasis from one group to another depending on the age and medical condition of the people concerned?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: We are pressed for time, so I will leave it at that. I thank the witnesses for that comprehensive answer. We have received a large number of inquiries which are based on misinformation, but understandable information as well. We must recognise the effect of social media in transmitting information that is both helpful and unhelpful in certain circumstances.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (13 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: Chairman-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (13 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: A word of caution: I am worried we will run down a road of chasing the virus. The latter is something over which neither we nor the HSE have any control. It is all down to one thing: supply. If the companies do not supply or are not capable of supplying enough vaccines or if there is a safety issue involved, what will we do? Will we superimpose ourselves between the HSE and the general...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (13 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: -----and we should not pretend to be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: I congratulate all the team on the work they have done and their co-ordination, dedication and follow-up in what have been, to be fair to them, very difficult circumstances where everybody has the answer and points the finger and knows how it could be done better. Those in the eye of the storm are usually in the best position to tell us how and when it can be done better. I also compliment...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: The worst-case scenario that might visit us at this stage would be to see an upsurge in infection rates again and to see it continue. The longer this continues the more desperate it becomes and the more disheartened the public will become. We must make some crucial intervention to try to ensure we do not allow it to continue. In the event of there being an unprecedented upsurge of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: Is Dr. Glynn satisfied that NPHET has in place the necessary measures and proposals to curtail any spread in a short time without bringing the whole country to a halt again or back into full lockdown again? To what extent has that possibility been examined?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: Does Professor Nolan wish to come in on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: I welcome our guest speakers and thank them for their presentation. Going back to the very start, when did the IDA last consult with the Department on the issue the association has just raised with us now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: Was the meeting successful and satisfactory or unsatisfactory and unsuccessful?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: Mr. Hourihan has done very well in setting out the various aspects of the service and its needs. I have had numerous visits to Mr. Hourihan's colleagues over the last number of years and have had lots of grounds for satisfaction. I would not be a critic of the service at all; I am a strong supporter of it. My next point concerns the restricted extent to which examinations and treatment...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: That answers that question. On medical cards in general and the number of patients on the cards, the number of patients has increased. Will Mr. Hourihan remind us again of the extent to which the number of has increased, which is, in other words, the extent to which the demand has increased?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: How well has the association exchanged views with the Department and the HSE on maintaining good oral hygiene and early detection and so on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: Has Mr. Hourihan tried the avenue of strongly illustrating the importance of the service insofar as patients' general health is concerned? How well has he emphasised that when dealing with the powers that be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: On the kind of treatment that is claimable insofar as tax is concerned from the point of view of the patient, Mr. Hourihan might tell us more about root canal work. Root canal work is very intense and requires a great deal of attention, time and care. I am sure it is stressful also from the point of view of the dentist carrying it out. Has the association engaged with the Department on the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: Allowances are claimable for income tax purposes for extractions. Root canal work is much more expensive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)
Bernard Durkan: To what extent can people go the same route for that more expensive and delicate work?