Results 21-32 of 32 for flu speaker:Róisín Shortall

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

Róisín Shortall: It does seem quite a small additional number. My concern is that we will not be prepared for the flu season on top of the other constraints that are there.

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

Róisín Shortall: I share the Chair's frustration at not being able to get straight answers because earlier I had asked for an assurance that we were able to secure sufficient quantities of the flu vaccine and it is only in the past 15 minutes that Mr. McCallion has spoken of constraints in the market. Will he explain to us exactly what are those constraints? Is it a question of availability or of cost? I...

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]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: ...1.1 million and 1.2 million. This does not seem to cater for a significant increase from last year's numbers. Again, what is the Government's estimate of the demand for doses of the vaccine in the coming flu season? The Tánaiste said that the HSE has placed orders. That is not quite the same as securing additional supplies. Can he assure us that sufficient supplies will be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: Is the Tánaiste confident that they will be secured and will be available before the onset of the flu season?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2020)

Róisín Shortall: My question relates to the availability of the flu vaccine and the adequacy of the supplies we have now secured for this coming season. It is extraordinary to think that last year more than 4,300 people were hospitalised with seasonal flu. That is more than the total number of people who have been hospitalised with Covid to date. While Ireland works to prevent a second wave of Covid, it...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Róisín Shortall: ...closed down. In the context of it being potentially two years before there is a vaccine, the probability of us having a second wave - and moving into the second half of the year with the threat of flu etc., which would hugely complicate matters - is there surely not a need now to change the strategy that we are using in order to make it more targeted-----

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (7 May 2020)

Róisín Shortall: ...be addressed at an early stage. The Disability Action Coalition is the umbrella group for those organisations. I appeal to the Minister to do that. Will the Minister give the go-ahead for the flu vaccination to be made available free of charge? Every year 4,000 people are hospitalised with flu, which is more than have been hospitalised with Covid. We simply cannot afford to have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (7 Nov 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 658. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact the flu strain H3N2 component of the 2017 vaccine programme has been shown to have been less effective in combatting the spread of influenza than in previous years; the Health Service Executive's plans in respect of the pressure that an upswing in influenza admissions will have on the hospital system this winter...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme Data (2 May 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 946. To ask the Minister for Health the targets in place for the uptake of the winter flu vaccine among front line Health Service Executive, HSE, staff; the number of front-line HSE staff that availed of the vaccine in the past three years for which figures are available; the way these compare with targets; the way in which uptake is promoted among staff; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Narcolepsy Disorder (20 Nov 2012)

Róisín Shortall: To ask the Minister for Health the supports available to children who have contracted narcolepsy as a result of the Pandemrix vaccine for swine flu; the measures that will be undertaken in this regard; when the Memorandum for Government setting out the full response to this issue will be brought before Dáil Eireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51196/12]

Written Answers — Community Pharmacy Services: Community Pharmacy Services (24 Apr 2012)

Róisín Shortall: Regulations were introduced in October 2011 to provide a legal basis for community pharmacists to supply and administer seasonal influenza vaccine. Unlike registered pharmacists, pharmaceutical assistants are not subject to statutory fitness to practise requirements and disciplinary sanctions under the Pharmacy Act 2007 and, therefore, cannot be held personally accountable or restricted from...