Results 41-60 of 157 for flu speaker:Stephen Donnelly

Current Issues Affecting the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...from €14.8 billion in 2018; — emergency departments (EDs) are currently experiencing significantly increased demand due to a combination of factors including the circulation of a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), flu, Covid-19 and Streptococcus A; — ED attendances were 1,319,367, up 7 per cent compared to 1,232,992 for the same period in 2019, and 14 per cent higher...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Departments (8 Dec 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I, too, commend the staff of Beaumont on their work. It is an impressive hospital with an impressive team. In spite of the challenges of Covid, respiratory syncytial virus , winter and the flu, the team is doing fantastic work. I fully acknowledge that the new emergency department is important. The proposal includes a reconfiguration of the existing emergency department. Associated...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1048 and 1049 together. The delivery of the influenza vaccination programme and the COVID 19 vaccination programme have been identified as key priorities in the HSE Winter Plan 2022/2023. Vaccination is proven to be the best protection against COVID19 and influenza and their potentially serious complications. The 2022/23 influenza immunisation programme...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (8 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...;s website at the following web addresses: - www2.hse.ie/living-well/winter/how-to-stay-well-in-winter/ - www2.hse.ie/living-well/winter/advice-patients-with-chronic- conditions/ - www2.hse.ie/conditions/flu/getting-the-vaccine/  Protecting older or vulnerable patients and service users who may be at risk of abuse, harm, and neglect by others in the context of their interactions with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Oct 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The 2022/23 influenza immunisation programme commenced on 3 October 2022.  The flu vaccine is available free of charge to adults over 65 years, individuals in specified at-risk groups and children aged from 2 to 17 years of age.  This programme ensures that those most vulnerable to the effects of influenza will have access to the flu vaccination without a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (12 Jul 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...relevant disease in Ireland and international best practice in relation to immunisation. My Department will continue to be guided by NIAC's recommendations on any emerging evidence on the issue of flu vaccination in the future. Prior to 2020/2021, the seasonal influenza vaccination was available without charge to Medical or GP Visit card holders in one of the HSE-defined at-risk...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (12 Jul 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Ireland's National Immunisation Programme, which is operated by the Health Service Executive, includes the provision of the seasonal influenza vaccination to all individuals in specified at-risk groups. Prior to 2020/2021, the influenza vaccination was available without charge to Medical or GP Visit card holders in one of the at-risk groups. Those, in these groups, who did not hold a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (23 Feb 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Ireland and mobilise the necessary health service responses. National Public Health Emergency Teams have been established in recent years in response to public health threats, including H1N1 (swine flu) and CPE (Carbapenemase Producing Enterobacterales), for example. This public health approach is in line with the advice of the World Health Organization (WHO). Since its first meeting...

Covid-19: Statements (16 Dec 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: ...and every business have all been working. These have been in tandem with a big increase in testing, in PCR and antigen testing, a wider roll-out and use of the Covid-19 pass, the roll-out of flu vaccines, serial testing in nursing homes and many more measures. It is because of all of these measures, but most importantly because of the efforts that people have been making, that the...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: ...pass. We are working hard to make sure we will have access to the antiviral drugs when they become available. There are very significant protections in place for nursing homes. There is the flu vaccine programme, the winter plan and much more. The combination of the efforts individuals and families are making, the efforts businesses are making and the efforts the Government, the HSE...

Seanad: Covid-19 and the New Measures (Health): Statements (1 Dec 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: ...measures are in place, as we are all aware. There is PCR testing and contact tracing; antigen testing, which I will return to shortly; the Covid pass, which we have extended; the winter plan; the flu vaccine; the nursing home measures; the working-from-home measure; the midnight closing in the hospitality sector; household close contacts staying at home for five days and being sent...

Seanad: Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (3 Nov 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: ..., and bringing in additional supports for nursing homes, including serial testing. We are signing up to efforts to encourage new drug therapies. We are not there yet, but the signs are encouraging at an EU level. We are also rolling out the flu vaccine and extending the regulations, which is part of what we are doing this evening, and pushing on ventilation, winter planning and more....

Covid-19: Reframing the Challenge, Continuing our Recovery and Reconnecting: Statements (21 Oct 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: ...in record time. These vaccines are key to turning Covid-19 into an endemic but controlled communicable disease. Only one human disease, smallpox, has been completely eradicated. Others, such as the flu, measles and cholera, slowly became endemic. Since the vaccines are remarkably effective in preventing serious disease and death, they can serve as our conduit for control. Many experts...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare: Discussion (6 Oct 2021)

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...

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...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (22 Jun 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: To reduce the burden on the health services that would result from a coincidence of the winter flu season and a resurgence of COVID-19, an extended influenza vaccination programme was implemented for winter 2020/21. Under the programme, all of those in the HSE-defined at-risk groups aged from 6 months up, and all children aged from 2 to 12 years inclusive had access to vaccination without...

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

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

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: I will do my best. I was making the point that Deputy Mattie McGrath has continued to make false statements and he is seeking written answers to false statements around flu jabs which obviously we cannot give him.