Results 1-11 of 11 for flu speaker:Marc MacSharry

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (29 Sep 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 861. To ask the Minister for Health if the flu vaccine for children aged two to twelve will be made available for free for the 2021 winter period and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26692/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Football Association of Ireland (23 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: ...an organisation that did not have the express sanction of its council. That is wrong. It is inconceivable, in the greatest crisis there has ever been in the history of the world since the 1918 Spanish flu, that the Secretary General of our busiest Department, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, seems to have spare capacity to go off and pad out his own CV for the exit...

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Marc MacSharry: ...provision of Pandemrix. In October or November 2009, the State distributed leaflets to patients and a different one to health professionals which claimed that Pandemrix was as safe as the ordinary flu vaccine and that it was clinically tested. From my research, that statement appears to have been false and has been accepted as false since. In 2012, Dr. Darina O'Flanagan, the then...

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Marc MacSharry: ...not I, says? It seems to accord with Swedish and Finnish reports because that is where the same vaccine was used. We know it was not clinically tested and that it was not the same as the regular flu vaccine, even though it was stated otherwise in a leaflet. The State also indemnified the company so it had no comeback, and the State Claims Agency indemnified all the GPs and the other...

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I put the details on the record at the beginning. We issued patient information leaflets and told people that this vaccine was as safe as the flu vaccine and that it was clinically tested, but it was not. As Mr. Breen said, it might not be as simple as I am putting it, but equally, it is not as grave as he is putting it back to me in response. We are talking about a finite number of...

Topical Issue Debate: Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme (11 Jul 2018)

Marc MacSharry: ...for discussion and I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Daly, to the House. This matter relates to issues arising in regard to the Pandemrix vaccination for swine flu some years ago, but I want to put on record my unequivocal support for vaccination when vaccines are available. That said, my ambition is to ensure that when known side effects or issues arise...

Topical Issue Debate: Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme (11 Jul 2018)

Marc MacSharry: ...Officer, and nothing happened. The State intentionally lied to patients in three patient-information leaflets telling people it was tested when it had not been, that it was as safe as the ordinary flu vaccine when it was not, and that it was exactly the same as Celvapan and other vaccines when it was not.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (12 Oct 2016)

Marc MacSharry: ...are presenting with symptoms including sleeplessness, over-tiredness, hallucinations, sleep paralysis and slurred speech which they believe is directly connected to receiving the pandemrix swine flu vaccine; if so, the action the HSE is undertaking to provide supports to care for the affected persons; if not, if he will request the chief medical officer and the HSE to look into this matter...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2015)

Marc MacSharry: ...can be no excuses not to have a debate. We are at a critical stage. It is not about political blame when we face into January and February and the months which are traditionally difficult with flu and other illnesses. I call for an urgent debate, as I did last week, on the development, or decline, of rural Ireland. The debate needs to be on the protection of our culture. When we look...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: ...since 8 September when the CEO of Beaumont issued a warning? Nothing. Blinded by the paralysis of inaction, the Government has cut services. We have not had a cold spell. Even before a possible flu epidemic, we are cutting services. I ask Members who are considering how they will vote later in the week, to reach their decision in the knowledge that the Government can be beaten on this...

Seanad: Mental Health Services: Motion (4 Dec 2013)

Marc MacSharry: ...the view of mental health and getting and encouraging people to talk. The advertisements on television some years ago were very good in that they encouraged people to mind their mental health. Whether it is depression, the 'flu, arthritis or panic attacks, there are solutions to those problems and we must get that message out to the public. As both Senators mentioned, excellent groups...