Results 1-10 of 10 for flu speaker:Jackie Cahill

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pigmeat Sector (15 Feb 2022)

Jackie Cahill: ...urge the Minister of State to provide for a certain period a direct subsidy for each pig slaughtered to try to reduce losses, help cash flow on farms and allow this vital industry to survive. Swine flu must be monitored. We must increase security to ensure it does not enter the country. It has damaged export markets across Europe and there is no doubt it has exacerbated the problem....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (1 Dec 2020)

Jackie Cahill: ...make contact with us, we will give them due consideration. The pig producers have been in contact already and have corresponded with us on the swine fever issue. If we get correspondence on avian flu, we will deal with it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: I want to raise the issue of narcolepsy. Following an alleged bad batch of the swine flu vaccine a decade ago, over 90 people have taken claims against the HSE. They claim this bad batch resulted in them developing narcolepsy. Four of them are from my own County Tipperary. Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder which impairs the brain's ability to regulate its sleep-wake cycle...

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Claims Agency (6 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 746. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the State Claims Agency is opposing claims by those who allege they have developed narcolepsy as a result of a faulty batch of the swine flu vaccine in view of the fact that the claims are supported by medical proof; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28772/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Treatment Complaints (6 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 747. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the first narcolepsy case related to a claimed bad batch of the swine flu vaccine to go to trial was not settled before an estimated €10 million was spent on the case approximately three weeks after going to trial; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28773/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Treatment Complaints (6 Oct 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 748. To ask the Minister for Health the reason over 90 cases have been taken by individuals who claim they have developed narcolepsy as a result of a faulty batch of the swine flu vaccine are being taken to trial instead of mediation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28774/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme (22 Sep 2020)

Jackie Cahill: 772. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to compensate persons that developed narcolepsy as a result of the swine flu vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25154/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2020)

Jackie Cahill: ...times but in the Covid scenario that we are now living in, it is utterly unacceptable. I ask that some of the €600 million that was announced yesterday, as we are heading into the winter flu season, would be used to reopen the emergency department in Nenagh for 24 hours a day. This would take pressure off University Hospital Limerick, reducing the overcrowding and decreasing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Future of the Beef Sector in the Context of Food Wise 2025 (Resumed): Bord Bia (21 May 2019)

Jackie Cahill: ...here. There are only 360 pig producers left in this country and for the first time in a number of years they are starting to get a reasonable return for their endeavours due to the outbreak, but swine flu will come and go in Asia. Will that market return a price that will make it viable for us to supply produce? Climate change poses great challenges for farmers. We have 2.5 billion...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Jackie Cahill: ...There has not been much discussion on that matter. The small number of farmers left in the pig sector have gone through an horrendous 18 months or two years. It looks like the outbreak of swine flu in China will come to their rescue and, hopefully, result in increased pig prices. The swine flu has been reported in China for about six months and it seems to be having an impact on pig...