Results 1-11 of 11 for flu speaker:Paul McAuliffe

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 712. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a national shortage of the flu vaccine for adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36261/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (13 Oct 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 510. To ask the Minister for Health the quantity of the winter 'flu vaccination purchased; his plans for additional quantities to be purchased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30071/20]

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

Paul McAuliffe: Given the availability of the flu vaccine, both for healthcare workers and, I understand, target groups - we have identified 1.9 million vaccines - the HSE does not seem to be progressing a population-wide programme with the objective that everyone in the population will have the same level of access that healthcare workers have. That will have an impact on the number of people presenting to...

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

Paul McAuliffe: To come back to the point, Dr. McCauley or Dr. Peadar Gilligan mentioned the issue of the flu vaccination. Obviously, in the fight against Covid, a comprehensive and more widespread flu vaccination programme will be needed. I wonder if both organisations, particularly the IMO but also in terms of cancer patients, might comment on what they would like that vaccination programme to look like...

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

Paul McAuliffe: I refer to the discussions we had this morning with the Irish Cancer Society and the IMO, particularly the discussion about a national flu vaccination programme. Can the witnesses flesh out some of the plans for that? Is that being done in parallel with the fight against Covid-19, particularly, the roll-out to non-prioritised groups?

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

Paul McAuliffe: Is there a reason the HSE is not approaching the flu vaccination programme with the whole population as the target?

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

Paul McAuliffe: Is the HSE aiming to have the maximum possible roll-out of the flu vaccine to as many people in the population as we possibly can, or are we limiting that ambition to the target groups, just as we might ordinarily do in a normal year?

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

Paul McAuliffe: From some of the clinical advice this morning there is talk that the flu season may reach us in September or thereafter. We have very little time to prepare for that. From both a social and an economic perspective, and speaking as a public representative, there is a benefit to reducing all levels of influenza that we can in order to avoid it being mistaken for Covid-19. Even the slightest...

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

Paul McAuliffe: When the HSE is coming back to me on that it might also look at the issue of pharmacists. I understand flu vaccination can be availed of in the local pharmacy, but that pharmacist is not able to administer the vaccine in a person's home, for example. That is additional capacity that could provide the greater than normal ability to deliver the flu vaccine and I urge the HSE to consider that....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (7 Jul 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 742. To ask the Minister for Health if the possibility of allowing pharmacists to administer the 'flu vaccine in the homes of persons will be examined. [14113/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (16 Jun 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: 648. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a campaign to increase the uptake of the autumn and winter flu vaccine in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11220/20]