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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)

Seán Kyne: The system of administering the vaccine or delivering it directly to the islands worked well and saved people who would not have transport having to come to the mainland. Perhaps Dr. Henry will revert to the committee's secretariat with information on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)

Seán Kyne: My third question is on a matter that was touched on earlier. I have come across a 96-year-old lady who lives in sheltered housing in my constituency. There are ten others over 60 years old who are in similar accommodation. I have contacted the National Ambulance Service to try to get them vaccinated. Unfortunately, these people are falling through the cracks. They are at an age where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)

Seán Kyne: Does Professor Butler think there will be a requirement for booster doses later in the year or early next year or is it too early to provide an answer in that regard in the absence of sufficient data?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Apr 2021)

Seán Kyne: There is absolute confusion in Galway at the moment regarding healthcare plans by the Saolta University Health Care Group and the Department of Health. We know capital projects take some years to develop and bring to fruition, but for some years we have been led to believe that a full elective hospital and 200 badly needed inpatient beds are to be delivered in Merlin Park. Now we see that...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Acts: Motion (19 Apr 2021)

Seán Kyne: I move: That Seanad Éireann, pursuant to section 4(2)(f)(v) of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Acts 2003 to 2018, hereby authorises the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission to conduct the defence of proceedings initiated in the Workplace Relations Commission against members of the Joint Committee on Health in the matter of Francis Kearney v Deputy Colm Burke and others(Ref:...

Seanad: Water Quality: Motion (19 Apr 2021)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the Minister of State. I live approximately 7 miles from Eyre Square. At 45 years of age, I can remember heading over to the neighbour's as a young lad to get buckets of water from the well and turn on pumps to pump water from the river. Fortunately, group water schemes were put in place throughout rural Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s. There was very much a hands-on approach by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

Seán Kyne: I welcome Dr. Glynn and the team. Vaccine hesitancy could creep into the population, given the decision of the national immunisation advisory committee, NIAC, on the AstraZeneca vaccine. Is Dr. Glynn concerned about this and should we be seeking an increased supply of other vaccine brands to combat it? I note today's decision of the Food and Drug Administration, FDA, in the US to recommend...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

Seán Kyne: The FDA has recommended a pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to investigate reports of blood clots. I ask Dr. Glynn to comment on that and on the French Valneva vaccine. Some of the basic messaging on hand hygiene has been hugely important but I believe anecdotally and from reports around the country that the practice of hand sanitising has reduced, certainly in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

Seán Kyne: I have a final question. With regard to monitoring businesses and shops and ensuring that they have, for example, a basic supply of hand sanitiser, whose role is it to ensure that a shop complies with what we have known for the past year to be very important and which is one of the core messages from NPHET and advocated by the Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Seán Kyne: I welcome Mr. Hourihan and the other witnesses from the Irish Dental Association. It is clear from the commentary that, as a State, we are being penny wise and pound foolish by not investing properly in the school screening service, which has knock-on effects, and by failing to agree a new deal. Mr. Hourihan stated that as there was no review in the intervening period, none of the items...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Seán Kyne: Can the committee be given a comprehensive list of examples, if such exists? Those examples are very interesting. I presume the resourcing of the school screening service by the HSE is having a knock-on effect, with people presenting with issues that should have been picked up in the school setting and have not been. I have come across cases where people were not picked up as having an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Seán Kyne: Do I have time for a final question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Seán Kyne: The witnesses spoke about the administrative burden. At my most recent check-up, my PPS number was entered into the system but, of course, Members of the Houses cannot claim anything back because of the class K stamp, but that is another debate. What level of burden is there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Irish Dental Association (8 Apr 2021)

Seán Kyne: I had assumed that but I was wondering what it was from the dentist's point of view.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the witnesses. I have a number of questions and perhaps the person best placed to answer them will jump in at the end. Regarding the review of medical cards, a letter is sent and in certain cases I have come across the individual does not respond. The people involved might be elderly and if they do not have family or a carer keeping an eye out for post sometimes these letters go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Seán Kyne: Yes. Ms Halliwell said that non-response rate is quite low. Could these individuals be followed up before the card is finally pulled to ask them whether they received the correspondence and if they need help in answering the questions? Very often it is quite simple because circumstances have not changed and neither have the details, and it is just a case of signing the form and returning it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Seán Kyne: I was asking about people who applied for a full medical card and received a GP visit card.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Seán Kyne: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Seán Kyne: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Seán Kyne: I thank Dr. Green.