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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for Persons with Lung Fibrosis: Discussion (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...time to do it. I was surprised and shocked for three weeks. I felt every muscle in my body because I had not been using those muscles since I retired from physical sport. When I got a cold or a flu, I was down for three or four weeks. I ended up back at square one again. It is a vital part of it, which I would not have known. A physical aspect of it is needed. It is probably 50% or...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Pa Daly: ...for three days in Limerick. Elective surgeries in UHK have been postponed since 15 December last. There has been a lack of surge capacity in that hospital for years. Whenever there is a winter flu or the hospital comes under any other pressure, such as the Covid pandemic, it is the elective surgeries that are put back. However, it is totally unacceptable that they have been out of...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...recommendations. It is not so long ago that it was a struggle to get any expansion of pharmacy services over the line. When it was first proposed that pharmacists would start to administer the flu vaccine, it was a real battle for them to be allowed to do that. That was the first battle. The second battle was for them to be paid fairly in line with what GPs were being paid....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (15 Feb 2024)

Paul Donnelly: .... It is completely understandable that there will be emergencies and pressures at times. There will be times when the hospital is overcrowded due to certain circumstances, whether it be a flu epidemic or respiratory issues. However, this is not something that happened in January or February 2024 or December 2023. In 2018, in an article in the Irish Independent, the current Minister of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (7 Feb 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 554. To ask the Minister for Health the number of childhood flu vaccines distributed by GPs, pharmacists and walk in clinics in the winter of 2023-2024 period.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5533/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (31 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Maurice Quinlivan: 177. To ask the Minister for Health if free flu vaccines for children will be available this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4523/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Ivana Bacik: 200. To ask the Minister for Health if he has undertaken an assessment of the cost of providing the flu vaccine free of charge to all people over 18 years of age. [3193/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2024)

Pauline Tully: ...heavy caseloads, she ended up quite ill herself and had to take time off because she was so worn down. Cavan General Hospital, like all hospitals, is currently facing issues because of high flu and Covid numbers. Advisories have been issued to stay away from the emergency department if at all possible and I am concerned about that. While I know the hospital is not referring to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (18 Jan 2024)

Mary Butler: .../winter/how-to-stay-well-in -winter/www2.hse.ie/living-well/winter/advice-patients-with- chronic-conditions/www2.hse.ie/screening-and-vaccinations/co vid-19-vaccine/get-the-vaccine/www2.hse.ie/conditions/flu/ge tting-the-vaccine/www.hpsc.ie/publications/Protecting older or vulnerable patients and service users who may be at risk of abuse, harm, and neglect by others in the context of their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (17 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: 1754. To ask the Minister for Health if antigen tests that test for both Covid and flu will be made available to members of the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1727/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (14 Dec 2023)

Ossian Smyth: ..., we must keep away from other children where possible and ensure we all wash our hands regularly and use respiratory etiquette for coughs and sneezes. It is vital we keep children with cold or flu-like illnesses home from crèche or school until they are feeling better to avoid spreading these viruses. With regard to winter viruses more generally, we know that vaccines, where...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Robbie Gallagher: ...to implement a plan. In the case of an extreme event, for example, where there may be a dispute going on within An Garda Síochána, whether that be what we experienced previously with the blue flu or where sometimes, Garda members may be involved in a dispute whereby overtime that may be on offer may not be taken up. We have seen, unfortunately, examples of that. It begs the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Dec 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...workers who, we suspect, contracted Covid mainly through community transmission. Covid, as the World Health Organization has recognised, is now endemic. It is an illness similar in status to the flu, for example, in that it causes significant problems but we have a degree of control over it. It is important to say that. Having discussed this with officials, the advice I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Religious, Faith-Based and other Philosophical Perspectives on Assisted Dying: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...in palliative care and that Islamic rulings advocate endurance for non-terminal patients experiencing severe pain. This would not be good for sales of Lemsip, and as a frequent suffer from man flu, I would be inclined to discourage that particular attitude to non-severe pain. On the issues, I want to ask our voices of faith here, and I do not really mind who picks up on this, if they...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Cathal Crowe: 340. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce an RSV vaccine programme for older adults this winter to help minimise the impact of the tripledemic, RSV, Covid and flu; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51727/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion (22 Nov 2023) See 6 other results from this debate

...the time, this has been well responded to. This will be used appropriately in the weeks ahead. I have advices from the chief clinical officer in respect of respiratory syncytial virus, RSV, seasonal Influenza and Covid-19, all of which continue to be monitored and feature in our plans, which are adjustable to the circumstances to the greatest degree possible. Communication with the...

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Duncan Smith: ...unless we get the staffing levels right. Yesterday, the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, IHCA, raised concerns about the spike in the number of children on hospital waiting lists as flu season approaches. Waiting lists for child inpatient and day case treatment have increased significantly over the past year, with severe overcrowding expected in paediatric hospitals this...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...Éamonn O’Moore, director of national health protection in the HSE, has said there has been a low uptake of vaccinations and that we need an urgent uptake in vaccination for both Covid and flu. In Ireland we have the advantage of seeing how the flu happens in Australia and by the time winter comes here we can get ahead of that with vaccinations. I urge people to make sure they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Awareness, Prevention and Services for the Treatment of Sepsis: Discussion (15 Nov 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

...when he was playing basketball one day he fell and cut himself, resulting in a very slight scrape on his arm. Overnight he spiked a fever. We brought him to his doctor who said it was a gastric flu, but because he needed some fluids she sent him to one of the top hospitals in New York. We took him to the emergency department there, where staff concurred with her that it was a gastric...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vaccination Programme (9 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: Covid-19, influenza and pneumonia vaccines are currently available to certain groups of adults most vulnerable to a severe outcome from these diseases. This is available as part of the adult immunisation programme. The immunisation programme is based on the advice of the national immunisation advisory committee, NIAC. NIAC considers the prevalence of the relevant disease, as well as...