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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (16 Nov 2021)

Bríd Smith: 511. To ask the Minister for Health if flu jabs will be made available free of charge to medical card holders; if not, the reason those on low incomes will not be eligible for free vaccines especially if cost prohibits uptake when extra pressure on the health service should be avoided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55578/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vaccination Programme (10 Dec 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...Minister for Health the reason students in the healthcare sector who are working in public hospitals and on the front line of services during the Covid-19 pandemic are being told they must get the flu vaccination shot and must pay the full cost themselves; if he will arrange for such students to be reimbursed the costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42324/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vaccination Programme (10 Dec 2020)

Bríd Smith: We have heard a lot about student nurses and the work they are doing on the front line at the moment. I want to ask specifically why they are being asked to pay for the flu jab. It is perfectly understandable that they would receive the flu jab given that they are front-line workers and working very hard with patients in Covid wards etc. Why, particularly when they are not being paid for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vaccination Programme (10 Dec 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...should not be happening that they are working instead of learning. However, all of those things are happening. I totally get that workers who work on the front line need to be protected from the flu, but the problem is that they are being asked to pay for it. I will send the Minister the information on that. Maybe the problem is that they are not defined as workers when they are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vaccination Programme (10 Dec 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...should be paid for every hour they work. It is work that a normal care worker would do, including emptying bed pans, washing patients, taking their vitals and sometimes administering liquids and fluids to them. It is not that they are not working. When one is not being paid for one's work on the front line, being asked to pay for the flu jab is adding insult to injury and it really...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Jun 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...control in the coming months; the steps which will be taken to ensure adequate staffing levels, trained personnel and medical care are in place before the winter and a possible second wave or flu virus arrives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9329/20]

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...centres located in communities. It could also be in an IFPA clinic or a Well Woman Centre. The GP is the person with whom one makes the appointment but one might need a cervical smear, injection, flu jab or some kind of diabetes check-up and one will often see the nurse. The practitioner runs the clinic and the nurse may deliver the service. The GP still leads the clinical service but...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Exploration Licences Approvals (14 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: Despite the Minister's man flu, I want him to address this very important question. Last July, quietly and without any notice to our committee or any notice on the Department's website, the Minister signed off on exploration licences for the Druid Drumbeg exploration field which is estimated to have 5 billion barrels of offshore oil. Last week we passed Second Stage of a climate emergency...

Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...and Sport, he is up to his neck in it. It is a bit ironic for him to say that ministerial intervention is never required in industrial disputes given that not so long ago, the threat of a blue flu by An Garda Síochána led his Government to intervene by finding €40 million to settle the issue. The provision of that €40 million was announced by the Minister, Deputy...