Results 1-17 of 17 for flu speaker:Michael McNamara

Trends in Mortality and Estimates of Excess Mortality: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...take from the pain and suffering of families who lost people to Covid-19. My mother was in a nursing home and, thankfully, died before Covid-19 arrived. In April 2019, she was quite ill with a flu that was doing the rounds. A number of her fellow patients died at that time and a nurse said it was really sweeping through and had taken X number of them. I remember the figure. It was...

Targeted Investment in the Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...the Minister of State pointed to the perfect storm over the winter with the Minister of State stating, "Emergency departments faced the most challenging winter in recent years as a perfect storm of flu, Covid and other respiratory diseases surged." However, on Monday of this week, when I am told we had the lowest number of persons with Covid and when there was no great outbreak of...

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir), 2018: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jan 2021)

Michael McNamara: ...in the Defence Forces. Likewise, the failure to give gardaí a more meaningful voice has damaged morale in An Garda Síochána, and we are all quite aware of how that has played out in terms of blue flu and so on. It is very difficult to coerce people into providing their labour, as the Government recently found out to its detriment. More important, it has also been to the...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Michael McNamara: What is the situation regarding the flu virus this year? Does the Minister anticipate that the flu will come here? If it is not here, why is that the case? Is it because people have behaved reasonably responsibly?

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Michael McNamara: .... Like everyone else, I am hugely concerned about the Covid figures. There is a tendency to blame people, and that concerns me. I worry about the effect that will have on society. Where is the flu this year? A small minority of people behaved recklessly, and I do not condone that in any way. If the population or indeed, the Government behaved as recklessly as some would suggest, then...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Nov 2020)

Michael McNamara: 659. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a national shortage of the flu vaccination for adults in general practitioner practices; if there is an issue on reordering the vaccination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34563/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Michael McNamara: As we head into the 'flu season, it will come to an end. I apologise. I cut Ms O'Connor short.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)

Michael McNamara: Many residential care facilities have no medical officers, for example. There is care but it is very low-level medical care. If someone in such a facility had the flu, for example, he or she would be hospitalised.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: Earlier, Dr. Kelleher mentioned absenteeism during the flu season. Perhaps that rate of absenteeism needs to be greater. Typically, what percentage of the Irish population gets the flu and how many people are hospitalised for it during the flu season?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020)

Michael McNamara: Is Dr. Kelleher saying that 5,000 or 6,000 people could have the flu in any given week?

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

Michael McNamara: Do we know what percentage of the population would have to be vaccinated against the flu to achieve herd immunity?

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

Michael McNamara: When does the flu season typically start?

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

Michael McNamara: If we are to achieve herd immunity from the flu by having the required percentage of the population vaccinated, while everybody is stressing that it will be a voluntary vaccination, time is ticking.

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

Michael McNamara: I have never taken a flu vaccine before but we live in extraordinary times. Can I take it that there are no plans to introduce a vaccination programme for ordinary people who are not healthcare workers, do not have an underlying condition, are not normally recommended to take the flu vaccine and are not children?

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

Michael McNamara: ...meetings are exercises in information provision or obfuscation. I am sorry to say that but it is sometimes difficult to get answers to simple questions. We have been told repeatedly that once the flu season kicks off, whether it will be in September or December this year, there is potential for catastrophe in our hospitals. Would you accept that?

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

Michael McNamara: Is it hard to get flu vaccine? Is availability of flu vaccine a difficulty that the HSE faces?

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

Michael McNamara: Mr. McCallion seemed to indicate that there was. Could he elaborate a little? Is it difficult to get flu vaccine in unusually high quantities? I accept that 75% of the population would be three to four times the quantity the HSE would normally buy. Is flu vaccine typically unavailable in that quantity or is there a difficulty in sourcing it?