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

Paul McAuliffe: Mr. Buggy said there will be a significant deficit. Is he prepared to put a figure on that?

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

Paul McAuliffe: I had the great pleasure of launching the volunteer driver service for the ICS last year in Beaumont Hospital. What impact has the pandemic had on recruiting volunteers for that service throughout the country?

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

Paul McAuliffe: All members would urge people to support the society in meeting both the financial deficit and the deficit of volunteers in order that it might try to continue to support cancer patients. I thank both organisations for being with us.

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

Paul McAuliffe: I refer to the discussions we had this morning with the Irish Cancer Society and the IMO, particularly the discussion about a national flu vaccination programme. Can the witnesses flesh out some of the plans for that? Is that being done in parallel with the fight against Covid-19, particularly, the roll-out to non-prioritised groups?

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

Paul McAuliffe: Is there a reason the HSE is not approaching the flu vaccination programme with the whole population as the target?

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

Paul McAuliffe: Is the HSE aiming to have the maximum possible roll-out of the flu vaccine to as many people in the population as we possibly can, or are we limiting that ambition to the target groups, just as we might ordinarily do in a normal year?

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

Paul McAuliffe: From some of the clinical advice this morning there is talk that the flu season may reach us in September or thereafter. We have very little time to prepare for that. From both a social and an economic perspective, and speaking as a public representative, there is a benefit to reducing all levels of influenza that we can in order to avoid it being mistaken for Covid-19. Even the slightest...

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

Paul McAuliffe: When the HSE is coming back to me on that it might also look at the issue of pharmacists. I understand flu vaccination can be availed of in the local pharmacy, but that pharmacist is not able to administer the vaccine in a person's home, for example. That is additional capacity that could provide the greater than normal ability to deliver the flu vaccine and I urge the HSE to consider that....

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

Paul McAuliffe: Capacity issues were raised this morning as well. The chief one was the idea of the 500 consultant posts. There was also an alarming enough figure that of the 160 specialised registrars, SpRs, who are exiting rotation this year, only one of them has had an informal consultant post. Can the HSE explain what the delay has been in appointing people to those 500 consultant posts?

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

Paul McAuliffe: Can I clarify the figure of 526? Is that a net increase?

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

Paul McAuliffe: My second question was around the greater access to diagnostics for those at primary care or GP level. Can Mr. Woods talk to that issue, please?

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

Paul McAuliffe: When Mr. Woods talks about going to market on diagnostics, does he have a number for the diagnostic machines that can be delivered and the types of machines?

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

Paul McAuliffe: What level of service or increased level of service will that provide?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Jul 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 43. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to limit travel here from countries with a high rate of Covid-19 transmission. [16597/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Proposed Legislation (21 Jul 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 60. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if legislation or measures to prevent tactical insolvency will be implemented in order to ensure that workers are better protected. [16591/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Jul 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if guidance will be provided to persons who have booked overseas travel in cases in which the country to which they are travelling is not on the green list and the airlines and or tour operators are refusing to offer compensation or credit for deferrals or cancellations. [16596/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legislative Measures (21 Jul 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to legislate for the regulation of e-scooters in 2020. [17231/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Traffic Management (21 Jul 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 230. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the decision to open the gates of the Phoenix Park to through traffic is a permanent one; and if the decision is under review. [17273/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (21 Jul 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined. [16896/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (21 Jul 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 608. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a nursing home (details supplied). [16490/20]