Results 441-460 of 1,286 for flu

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Football Association of Ireland (23 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: ...an organisation that did not have the express sanction of its council. That is wrong. It is inconceivable, in the greatest crisis there has ever been in the history of the world since the 1918 Spanish flu, that the Secretary General of our busiest Department, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, seems to have spare capacity to go off and pad out his own CV for the exit...

Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jul 2020)

David Cullinane: ...sleepless nights, long shifts and huge stresses brought about by all the changes to the testing regime. GPs are under huge pressure. In light of the coming winter surge, the need to roll out flu vaccination, Covid-19 and all of the existing demands on GPs, are we seriously saying this will be done any time soon? Deputy Donnelly is a new Minister, so some of this is the responsibility...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Jul 2020) See 2 other results from this answer

David Cullinane: 295. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to prepare for the winter flu season; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17889/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jul 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...In the first instance, we need to learn the lessons so that we can apply them when issues may arise again - hopefully they will not if we can avoid them - with a second spike in the autumn and the 'flu season. That is the spirit in which I want to approach this. We must also make sure that we take medium-term lessons as to how we reform the care of the elderly into the future and have a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jul 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...easy to say that we should do this or that. We have examined these issues and continue to examine them. It is important to say again that the focus now is on the health capacity. With the winter flu in particular coming our way, great work is being done within the Health Service Executive on capacity issues, as they relate to staff, physical capacity, ICU and the acute hospital system,...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020) See 16 other results from this debate

.... We cannot rely on the private sector to the level we have. Some 82% of all care of the older person services is provided by the private sector and the workforce is not sufficient to endure another flu or another wave of Covid-19. It is simply unfair and inhumane to ask it to go back to that level of crazy staffing.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (Resumed) (21 Jul 2020) See 13 other results from this debate

Fergus O'Dowd: ..., because these people are known with known addresses. The Garda should call and ask them, in the interests of public health, to turn up. The second question I have relates to the uptake of the flu vaccine, as well as to the certainty of the return of flu and the probable return of Covid-19. From my reading of what the witnesses gave us, the rate of take-up in the HSE is 44%, which is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jul 2020)

Joe O'Reilly: ...the Seanad and that we keep it under constant review.In particular, it is about the way we will cope with the dreaded second surge. We will have to be ready for that possibility and for the winter flu season, etc. There should be a radical improvement in the carer's allowance, a radical upping of the status of our carers and a celebration of them. I commend that that be part of the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...a residential place for him. In view of all the points the witnesses have made and that we are making here, how do we ensure there is action? The situation may well be exacerbated by the flu that is on its way and perhaps by a return of the coronavirus. We need a plan. One of the witnesses referred earlier to everybody getting together. Is there a forum through which we can insist on...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020) See 14 other results from this debate

David Cullinane: ...two questions to Ms Clyne because we are tight on time. There is an awful lot I would like to ask about, but we are confined by the time limits. Ms Clyne mentioned preparation for the winter flu season and what will happen with the added concern of Covid-19. Those concerns relate to vaccinations and how they are rolled out, as Ms Clyne referred to. I ask her to expand on that. Ms...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020) See 26 other results from this debate

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?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (15 Jul 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...It will be challenging, of that there is no doubt. Emergency attendance bed capacity is back at 94%, which is too high, particularly in the context of any resurgence in Covid or the arrival of the flu season. That is why I wanted to meet with the HSE, to drive home early the need for early measures to try to ward off the challenges that will undoubtedly be faced by the health service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: 156. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated demand for the flu vaccine in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16236/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jul 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...can to develop capacity within respective hospitals, and short-term capacity in particular, because there will be pressure on emergency departments. We cannot operate at 95% occupancy during the flu season with the potential of Covid with us as well and, therefore, the HSE is looking at how it can either procure or develop capacity quickly in certain locations to enable it to deal with...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...and plan properly for this winter, more so than any other, because we will be living with Covid-19, which will place an extra strain on our healthcare facilities and hospitals as we approach a new flu season. I am particularly worried about that. Any extra capacity that can be brought into the system should be brought in as quickly as possible.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2020) See 4 other results from this debate

Leo Varadkar: ...time because this is going to be really important as we head into the winter. We are very closely watching what is happening in the southern hemisphere, where countries are now entering the winter flu season. We need to watch what happens there in order to inform what we do here. Everyone knows that the flu comes every winter. What many people probably do not know is that every year...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: ...the pandemic. I want to continue to hammer home the need for the Government to be ten steps ahead of where society is as we head into the winter. We are going to have a re-emergence of seasonal 'flu; we always do and it always puts massive pressure on our health system. If Covid comes back it will double or treble that pressure. I do not want to have to wear a face mask on public...

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

John McGuinness: 724. To ask the Minister for Health if residents of nursing homes were given the option of availing of the 'flu vaccine in 2019; his plans on same for 2020; if his Department or another health agency under his remit issued advice in this regard to nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13995/20]

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]

Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (30 Jun 2020) See 2 other results from this debate

Alan Kelly: ...from a capital point of view because of Covid? I have already asked the Minister's Department about this and it could not provide answers, so perhaps he could. Will the Minister consider rolling out a full flu vaccine for everybody? I believe, and my party has put this forward numerous times, that this would be the most appropriate thing to do over the coming years. The Minister...