Results 1-5 of 5 for flu speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...is something with which science is beginning to catch up. Even if new variants appear, scientists will be able to vary the vaccine to deal with any possible mutations in the future, as they do with the flu vaccine. The situation as I see it is that the Government has a tricky decision to make, on the advice of NPHET. At the end of the day, it is not NPHET that is making the decision;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 839. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to ensure that adequate supplies of flu vaccine are available to all general practitioners to cover all target groups - the old, the pregnant and the disabled - and other vulnerable persons with serious underlying conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36989/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1472. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure all medically-vulnerable persons with serious underlying conditions in the CHO2 area will have access to the flu vaccine; the reason for the extreme shortage of the vaccine at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33925/20]

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...all evening on this but I hope the Minister of State gets the message. We are in a crisis and it is only the beginning of winter. I hate to think what faces us over this winter, particularly if there is a flu outbreak.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2010: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...I ran into a problem. My next inclination would have been to exempt people with disabilities. I would not exempt those on illness benefit because that is a short-term payment. One could get the flu and collect illness benefit. I would be inclined to exempt those on invalidity pensions or on disability allowance. The problem is that this broadens it out too much and if I was to add in...