Results 1-18 of 18 for flu speaker:John Lahart

Joint Committee On Health: Life Cycle Approach to Mental Health: Discussion (18 Apr 2023)

John Lahart: ...on from that. I referred once or twice in the health committee during the Covid period to a great book called Stacking the Coffins, which is not a very positive title. It is about the Spanish flu pandemic and its impact in Ireland. One of the author's findings was that the failure to commemorate or mark what happened in a significant way meant the impact of the Spanish flu crisis was...

Joint Committee On Health: Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

John Lahart: ...final question on Covid, to which Deputies Ward and Hourigan referred. I referred previously, albeit in a different context, to a great book written by Dr. Ida Milne on the history of the Spanish flu in Ireland. One of her conclusions, which she laments, is that the Spanish flu occurred in a period of revolution towards the end of the First World War and people did not want to know or...

Joint Committee On Health: Issues Relating to Perinatal Mental Health: Discussion (18 Oct 2022)

John Lahart: I can understand the context when I look back. My late mother spoke about the revolutionary period but never mentioned the Spanish flu. There are similarities. We have a war on the Continent of Europe and a big energy crisis. It is not that people have forgotten the pandemic. It is just that other things have preoccupied us. We must, however, learn from this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

John Lahart: In relation to the previous pandemic on a global scale, which was the Spanish flu, are there any familiar patterns or any correlations there that Dr. Holohan is able to learn from? They were different times.

Joint Committee On Health: Impacts of Covid-19 on Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Sep 2021)

John Lahart: ...big task. The obvious commemoration is a public thing, but art, music and the media have a very important long-term role to play in this. Throughout Covid I regularly cited a book about the Spanish flu and its impact on Ireland by Dr. Ida Milne. The book refers to the failure of the State to commemorate which meant that in subsequent years my generation had no sense that the Spanish...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Feb 2021)

John Lahart: A great book by the author Dr. Ida Milne is a treatise on the Spanish flu. Dr. Milne tells the story of a battalion of US soldiers who arrived at the Western Front in France in September 1918, who fought on the front in October, with the war ending in November. Some 440 of that battalion succumbed to the Spanish flu and only a small fraction succumbed in action. The metaphor is not lost in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2020)

John Lahart: ...will arrive sooner than that and we know a little more about the virus. To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, there are still a few unknown unknowns. What will the impact be if the virus returns, as the flu does, and requires an annual vaccine? I suppose it is impossible to plan for such a scenario, but it is not out of the question. Do the witnesses have any observations in that regard?

Covid-19: Statements (24 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak. Any time I have made a contribution, I am reminded that our only precedent for this is Spanish flu. There was a third surge of the Spanish flu in March and April and it will be hard for the country to avoid that in this instance, despite people's best efforts. We need to be mindful of it. The Taoiseach was right in his determination to...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: ...think people could bear it psychologically either. I am like a broken record, in that in every contribution I make I keep harping back to the only precedent in Ireland for something similar, which was the Spanish flu. It had a surge in October and November and another surge in March and April, so we ought to anticipate a third surge and prepare accordingly for it. We need to be more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: We are one week into the traditional flu season. Does the Minister have anything to report on figures in hospitals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: What is the incidence of flu? Have we any figures on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: Will the Minister furnish the committee with information on that? There is anecdotal evidence from other countries that, because of behavioural changes relating to wearing masks and hand hygiene, flu incidence has not been as high as previously. Obviously, that will be monitored.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

John Lahart: We are a week into the traditional flu season. Perhaps the Minster could follow up on that. My final question may require a written answer. It comes down to essential and non-essential business. We cannot repeat what we have done previously when it comes to the next surge. There will be another surge, so I urge the Minister to keep the tracing numbers up and consistent. We should not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Contact Tracing: HSE (28 Oct 2020)

John Lahart: ...on the radio. We now have five weeks left at level 5. How does the HSE propose to use that time to prepare for the next phase? What has it learned from the last phase? I keep referencing the Spanish flu in terms of precedents. I do not think we should forget about it. There was a second wave in October and November and a third surge in March and April. We may predict that. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

John Lahart: There is a good book by Ida Milne on the Spanish flu in Ireland. There was a surge in November and a further surge the following March, then, thankfully, the flu disappeared. It looks like we are in the middle of a second surge and that it will be with us for a year and a half. What have we learned about respite and other matters that we might have been frightened to do at the start? Can...

Climate Action: Statements (17 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: ...Climate action on its own is heavy and weighty, never mind the existence of a pandemic and the budgetary and fiscal situation facing the country, although, following the First World War and the Spanish flu the east coast of the United States went through the roaring 20s for seven or eight years and then hit the darkest depression that has ever hit anybody. This generation needs minding,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: 1399. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to changes to the medicinal products regulations or other regulations to ensure efficient distribution of the flu vaccine and a potential Covid-19 vaccine similar to regulations being considered in the UK (details supplied); and the details of changes being considered. [22615/20]

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (2 Sep 2020)

John Lahart: ...is such a basic point, but we are living in the midst of a pandemic. People might have thought it would be over by now - clearly, we know it is not. During the short recess, I read a book on the Spanish flu in Ireland which had three phases: it arrived, there was a spike in November, and again in March and April and then, thankfully, it disappeared. We are starting to realise that there...