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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...

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: ...and next year, planning for vaccination programmes for next year as well. We are also planning for the autumn and winter vaccination work. I have no doubt but that we will have ongoing Covid vaccinations, a flu vaccination programme and all the school-based vaccination programmes. We now have this wonderful new infrastructure in place which we have never had before. The Department, the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2021)

Seán Kyne: ...have the Delta variant and, possibly, the Delta plus variant. Who knows what variant we will have in the autumn or next year? It is likely that Covid variants are now with us and will become as common as the flu. This a very serious issue that we face. The business community and the hospitality sector have faced enormous pressures over the last year and continue to do so. It is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2021)

Sharon Keogan: ...question we ask in this country and the result is severe instability. Over the weekend I read an interesting article on the city state of Singapore, which has decided to treat Covid like any other endemic disease such as flu. It has stopped its zero transmission targets, its people will stop wearing masks, it will halt lockdowns and it will no longer require quarantines. Its people will...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jun 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Alan Farrell: The past year has shown us the value of vaccination programmes. Given an unprecedented level of uptake in our flu vaccination programme in the winter of 2020-2021, can Government give a commitment that such a programme will continue to be free at source for the general population?

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (22 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: Covid will continue to be the biggest risk as we move forward but hospital overcrowding will also be a significant risk. We barely had a flu season in 2020 due to everything. Ensuring as many people as possible are vaccinated this winter will be critical. I want to ask the Taoiseach about supply issues regarding the roll-out. What are we ordering for next year? I know decisions were to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (22 Jun 2021) See 1 other result from this answer

Alan Farrell: 560. To ask the Minister for Health the number of flu vaccines that were administered to children in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25650/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Experiences during COVID-19 Restrictions and Lockdowns: Engagement (22 Jun 2021)

...off gov.ie. That was the main one we got it off and where the signs and everything are from. Before, when I thought of washing my hands, I asked: “Why would I do that? It is not like the flu is going to affect me.” I then realised that this is basically the flu, and that it has killed like 20 million people or some other crazy number, so I probably should wash my hands.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)

Jerry Buttimer: ...everybody safe. Has NPHET given any consideration to giving Pfizer as a second dose to people who have had AstraZeneca for their first vaccination? In the context of a booster shot, much like the flu vaccination, does Dr. Holohan see us having a yearly one and, if so, could there be a recommendation that Pfizer would be used? In the context of the earlier question to Dr. Glynn about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing for Aviation and Travel Sectors: Discussion (9 Jun 2021)

.... The absence of symptoms increases the likelihood of Covid-19 spreading within the community because the triggers that we know for self-isolation and testing, such as temperature, loss of taste, flu-like symptoms, etc., are not as prevalent. Currently, when an individual develops symptoms, he or she self-isolates and contacts his or her GP or the HSE to arrange a PCR test, but 51% to...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 May 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...is something with which science is beginning to catch up. Even if new variants appear, scientists will be able to vary the vaccine to deal with any possible mutations in the future, as they do with the flu vaccine. The situation as I see it is that the Government has a tricky decision to make, on the advice of NPHET. At the end of the day, it is not NPHET that is making the decision;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 May 2021)

Norma Foley: ...to refer to the HSE website for the complete list of symptoms of COVID-19. Readers are also advised that infection with the virus that causes COVID-19 can cause illness, ranging from mild to severe, and the symptoms can be similar to those of cold and flu.

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...is wrong and is absolutely morally unacceptable. We must examine that proposal in greater detail. Some 70% of people who are in nursing homes suffer from dementia. Dementia is not like the flu - here today and gone tomorrow - it gets progressively worse. I know of many people who are broken-hearted looking after a family member at home as the dementia proceeds and increasingly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ventilation and Covid-19: Discussion (19 May 2021)

...and of super-spread events. Vaccines alone cannot provide enough headroom for reopening. A prevention plan is needed. Safe indoor air has many measurable benefits for health and well-being. It mitigates all respiratory illness, including flu, and future-proofs for another pandemic. Aside from all these benefits, good indoor air quality is a legal requirement of workplace health and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

...and it is a terrible tragedy for all of the families who have suffered as a result of this, but it is not just that people die from coronavirus. This is something we live with. People die from flu but we do not stop the economy every winter because of the outbreak of the flu pandemic and because hundreds of thousands of people die across the world.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vaccination Programme (18 May 2021)

Norma Foley: ...teacher is called to receive their COVID-19 vaccination during school hours.  Attendance at a COVID-19 vaccination appointment is treated similarly to other such medical appointments eg. attendance for flu vaccine.  Paragraph 5 of the Information Note states: ‘5.1 Where a teacher or SNA has a COVID-19 vaccination appointment during school hours, the absence will be treated...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Emergency Departments (10 May 2021)

Seán Kyne: .... Obviously, there have been cancellations, Covid-19 and an array of issues. However, this is the month of May, not a month that is traditionally associated with overcrowding due to the winter flu, vomiting bugs and the like. Nonetheless, there is overcrowding in UHG. Today, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, there are 24 people on trolleys in the hospital....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (5 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 580. To ask the Minister for Health if supports, financial or otherwise, have been put in place for persons who had side effects from the swine flu vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22931/21]