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Covid-19: Reframing the Challenge, Continuing our Recovery and Reconnecting: Statements (21 Oct 2021) See 2 other results from this debate

Joe Flaherty: ...week emphasised that Covid is not going away any time soon. The sustained roll-out of the vaccine boosters is critical if we want to stay ahead of this fast-paced and mutating virus. The winter flu is now upon us, with first cases being reported. It will undoubtedly bring further pressure on our GPs, their staff and hospitals. We need to mobilise every battalion available to us in the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Emergency Departments (20 Oct 2021)

Mary Butler: ...Attendances at all emergency department are hospitals have increased throughout the country. It is a very worrying trend so early in the winter. We are facing into the possibility of the winter flu and the vomiting bug. Luckily last year people did not present with those two conditions but already we are seeing the trends. Coupled with that, we are all conscious that more than 400...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Martin Conway: ...that will reopen on Friday, after 19 long months, the very best. I hope it will go smoothly, carefully and safely. On health issues, the hospitals in Galway and Limerick are very overcrowded.We also know the flu vaccination season had begun. While I welcome the Government's announcement that it will extend the remit of those who can receive free flu vaccines, we need to go further. We...

Seanad: Sláintecare Implementation: Statements (19 Oct 2021)

Martin Conway: ...achieved enormous success in the vaccination programme, with 92% of the population fully vaccinated against Covid-19. I spoke today on the Order of Business on this issue. I am still concerned that we are still charging people for the flu vaccine, which seems to be penny wise and pound foolish. The flu vaccine should be available to every member of the population free of charge. In...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Cross-Border Healthcare Directive: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Oct 2021)

...will pick up on the Senator's question about the TRIPS waiver. Our companies are not traditionally involved in the manufacture of vaccines. A couple of our companies are involved in the seasonal flu vaccine, including Viatris, my company. We are one of the main suppliers of the seasonal flu vaccine to Ireland and a number of other countries. Another trade organisation in Ireland...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...it be timely for us to have a debate on the ongoing progress of our vaccination programme against Covid-19, in particular, and of course with other vaccination programmes in mind as we enter the flu season? There are many important issues to discuss, such as the issue of the booster vaccine, the ethical question around the developing world and its need to access even first vaccines for...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (6 Oct 2021)

Seán Kyne: ...to respect it. Out of an abundance of caution, we must ensure these measures are available and can be easily put in place if required. As I stated, we all hope they will not be required. The flu vaccine is an issue related to that of vaccine uptake. Ireland has a strong record in the context of the flu vaccine, particularly among older people. One could argue that a lack of hand...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Stephen Donnelly: ...trolley numbers were the lowest since the records were first collected, I believe, in 2013. Therefore, it worked well. There were some things going in our favour, such as the absence of seasonal flu, but we had other things going against us such as the global pandemic. The reason it worked was we implemented solutions for the whole patient flow. First, we kept people out of the...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

Mick Barry: From 1918 to 1920, the Spanish flu epidemic swept the world killing tens of millions of people. The pandemic clearly revealed to the masses that the existing health systems based on private ownership and charities were not fit for purpose. The demand for public health services grew louder and unstoppable. In 1945, following six years of world war, the people of England, Scotland, Wales and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (28 Sep 2021)

Martin Conway: ...network of vaccination centres that have delivered the Covid-19 vaccine very effectively. We need to see if other vaccines can be delivered through that network, now that the centres are up and running. The flu vaccine is an obvious one, as is the HPV vaccine. I have raised this matter before. I would like to know if any of the vaccination centres have been used. If so, I ask for some...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed) (23 Sep 2021)

...care and the activity the Deputy is talking about. We are seeking to do a lot of activity before the end of the year to make an impact. Critically, we intend to do that before the serious winter flu season kicks in.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Animal Diseases (21 Sep 2021)

Matt Carthy: 687. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he has introduced since December 2020 to protect against the potential of African swine flu outbreaks in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44759/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Vaccination Programme (16 Sep 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

Denis Naughten: 301. To ask the Minister for Health the uptake rate for the flu vaccine in winter 2020 in adults, children over 12 and children under 12 years of age; his plans to encourage increased vaccination rates in each age group during winter 2021; his plans to extend the nasal vaccine to a wider age group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44363/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19: Discussion (15 Sep 2021) See 8 other results from this debate

...: I will put words rather than numbers on it because the numbers are extremely small. The practices we had in place last winter to restrict the transmission of Covid-19 practically obliterated influenza in the northern hemisphere. That was our experience in this country. Each winter, we track the rate through our sentinel GPs, of whom there are 60 around the country, of influenza-like...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Sep 2021)

Alan Farrell: 1418. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being considered to encourage maximum take-up of the 2021 winter flu vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42893/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Sep 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: ...to support the roll out of the Winter Plan 2020/2021. The Plan provided additional permanent acute bed capacity, additional home support hours, additional community-based services and an expanded flu vaccination programme to alleviate pressure on hospital emergency departments (EDs). The HSE is currently working on developing a plan to deal with the additional pressures on hospital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Further and Higher Education Institutions: Discussion (22 Jul 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...ultimately turned out to be the correct decision. Are we going to get that specific information out to people in a timely way? I read something fascinating recently about the impact the Spanish flu had on the built environment of the 1920s and I think ventilation will be this century's response to this pandemic. Solving the ventilation issue will do much more than solve Covid. It...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (13 Jul 2021)

Micheál Martin: ..., including the social and cultural changes that were taking place and the role of women during the revolutionary period. On the social and cultural changes, Dr. Ida Milne has done work on the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, as it was called. I was often struck by how little attention that pandemic got in history books and on the curriculum. It is only in more recent times that scholarly...