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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Alan Kelly: 2014. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doses of the flu vaccine that were administered in each of the years 2018 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19565/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Poultry Industry (21 Apr 2021)

Michael Creed: 2452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will quantify the extent of the avian flu impact on the Irish poultry sector for each of the past five years; the financial supports available from his Department on this matter; his views on the desirability of a poultry health fund for the sector and the possibility of insurance cover against such disease incidents; and if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)

Professor Karina Butler: There are probably not enough data but there is a general feeling that the need for booster doses or a further dose similar to the flu vaccine is quite likely. It may not be every year. It might be every couple of years. Work is ongoing to develop a pancoronavirus vaccine, which would not be as changeable and might have a broader range of cover. It is too early...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)

Annie Hoey: ...premature of me to consider later phases. In the long term, how does Dr. Glynn see the virus being managed and vaccination working out? Is there the potential for the situation to become like the flu vaccine, with large swathes of the population having to get a vaccine regularly? If so, how would its roll-out be managed? Would it be done in pharmacies like the flu vaccine or would it...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Poultry Industry (1 Apr 2021)

Niamh Smyth: ...have some good news for the poultry farmers who are listening. There are many in Cavan-Monaghan and elsewhere who desperately need that support and who need to know that if there is another outbreak of bird flu, the finance will be there to back them, support them and ensure they have a future.

Caring for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Mar 2021)

Pauline Tully: ...tremendously difficult year, when the invaluable work carers do could be recognised by their inclusion in the prioritisation groups for vaccination, they are left out again. Every year, when the winter flu jab is administered to elderly and medically vulnerable people, family carers are offered the vaccine at the same time. Why could that not be done in the case of the Covid vaccine? It...

Seanad: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (29 Mar 2021)

Paddy Burke: ...most nursing homes. There are many large pharmaceutical companies in the country. Have any plans been made that would allow these companies, which may have spare capacity because there has been no flu this year, to produces vaccines? I have no doubt that there will be a need for booster vaccines in the coming years. What is our plan in that regard? An audit should be carried out in...

Seanad: Living with Covid-19: Statements (29 Mar 2021)

Timmy Dooley: ...way because there are so many people who have been so negatively disposed towards the Government and who have sought to indicate that there was always a better way. Those people will point to far-flung locations without effectively tracing or tracking the similarities or the differences that pertain in those locations. We have done reasonably well. Mistakes were made but everybody was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Regulation of Veterinary Medicines: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

...20 years, we have seen this both in human and veterinary medicine. There have been huge advertising campaigns over the past two decades with regard to human medicines to tell people that if they have flu, they do not need an antibiotic, and these campaigns have been quite public. Over the same period, as Senator Lombard pointed out, the amount of vaccine or preventative medicine being...

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021) See 2 other results from this debate

Stephen Donnelly: On Deputy Mattie McGrath's statements regarding the flu vaccine----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: .... What I can say is that we have pre-ordered just under 18.5 million doses, as the Deputy mentioned. If it is the case that boosters are required next winter or at the same time as the flu vaccination, or maybe this time next year, we would certainly have enough to provide them based on our current orders. However, there is an additional complication, which is that the vaccines may need...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...administered 12.6 million vaccines, which they acquired from outside the EU. We are patting ourselves on the back that we have 350,000 or so people vaccinated. I am tired of asking the Minister about the flu vaccination programme that was rolled out late last summer, because he will not answer my question. I asked him in November, three weeks ago and again this morning to tell me...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...Deputy O'Dowd was lecturing us here about how well the Government is performing and how good it is. The vaccine has been rolled out to the equivalent population of one county. I put it to the Minister last November that 2 million flu vaccines had been bought but the Department could only account for 1.4 million. I asked the Minister to prove me wrong on that. How are we going to be fit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vitamin D and Covid-19: Covit-D Consortium (23 Feb 2021)

Seán Kyne: ...? Secondly, Covid can impact the lungs and breathing. Does vitamin D have any other positive roles in other conditions in keeping people fighting fit? For example, we have not had the winter flu this year, thankfully. Obviously, that is related to Covid and all that has gone on in that regard. Could vitamin D be beneficial in keeping people fit enough to fight a winter flu? Is...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Feb 2021) See 2 other results from this debate

Mattie McGrath: Several months ago, I asked the Minister about the roll-out of the flu vaccine. I put it to him that 2 million doses had been supplied but the Government could only account for 1.4 million of them. I ask him to provide me with an answer in writing, stating whether that was right or wrong. I asked how we were going to be prepared to roll out the Covid vaccine, given the number of vaccines...

Covid-19 (Transport and Travel): Statements (10 Feb 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is very important that we all remember that pandemics end. The Spanish flu ended, the black plague ended and the Covid-19 pandemic will end as well. The important thing for policymakers and politicians such as us is to ensure that we keep in place the fundamental structures in society while this very difficult period proceeds. The Minister's responsibility is to ensure that public...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...very sick and dying if they get coronavirus. Once coronavirus is prevalent in the community, it is very hard to keep it out of a nursing home, in the same way that it is not possible to keep flu out of a nursing home in any given winter. For exactly this reason, because nursing home residents are at such high risk of getting sick and dying from this virus, they were the group that was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Update (29 Jan 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

Mr. David Walsh: The over-85s are a particular group that needs to be given all due consideration. They place their trust in their GPs and, as have seen through the flu vaccination programme, what worked successfully was where GPs contacted their over-85s and called them in for vaccination. The intention is the same process will apply in relation to Covid-19 vaccination.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

David Cullinane: That is an unsatisfactory answer. Can I point the Minister to the HSE’s own roll-out of the flu vaccine, where carers are seen as a distinct cohort, yet when it comes to this vaccine they are not, and they are concerned about that. As the Minister knows, they do an invaluable job. I also wish to raise the issue of people in long-term care facilities and people with disabilities...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jan 2021)

Michael Healy-Rae: 283. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allow general practitioners to deliver the Covid-19 vaccine to persons over 70 years of age as they have successfully administered the flu vaccine to this age group in the past; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4860/21]