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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (31 Jan 2024)

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]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (16 Nov 2022)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...on trolleys exceed the number in the entirety of 2021. Halfway through November, 767 people have been treated on trolleys. As I am sure the Minister of State is aware, Covid-19 and seasonal flu presentations will put additional pressure on staff at UHL. Record numbers are being treated on trolleys, and high numbers are presenting to the emergency department. None of this is new to the...

Winter Plan 2020: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...conditions. I hope the Government's winter plan will provide some remedy for the problems faced by the hospital. These issues will become even more difficult to manage with the onset of the winter flu season, as the Minister is well aware. I accept that the winter plan was never designed to be, or going to be, a panacea for all these issues. I hoped it would provide some solutions and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...and today, unfortunately, there are 69 people, although they were not all on trolleys because the nurses told me they ran out of trolleys. The winter is approaching. It is now autumn and the flu season is upon us. What is the Taoiseach going to do? Is the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, going to intervene? We understand building is going on and new modular units are being built, but I...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (9 Sep 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...the hospital. Unfortunately, my home county of Limerick has experienced a dramatic and concerning increase in Covid cases. The increase, coupled with the issues at the hospital, and the upcoming flu season will create the perfect storm that could ultimately overwhelm our overstretched hospital staff. I ask the Minister to intervene. He will say there is not, but there is an embargo...

Emergency Bed Capacity: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...disappeared but did not get better. They are still out there and we will still have a problem. There is a big concern about whether the hospital will cope next winter if there is a resurgence of flu or Covid-19. We cannot go back to the position of 2018 and 2019. There were incredible scenes, with 92 people on trolleys one day at the hospital, which was an absolute disgrace. The staff...

Hospital Trolley Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2018)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...lying on trolleys last year. That is an absolute disgrace. University Hospital Limerick has been suffering from severe overcrowding for years. The situation is not just being caused by the flu outbreak. It has become a permanent feature in Limerick. The Government is doing nothing to help the patients in my constituency. The core of these problems stems from the downgrading of Ennis,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (28 Sep 2017)

Maurice Quinlivan: 193. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a doctor in County Limerick is charging €15 for the flu vaccine to persons with medical cards and to persons over 70 years of age. [41143/17]