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Seanad: Swine Flu Outbreak: Statements (6 May 2009)

Geraldine Feeney: I welcome the Minister and I thank her for taking time to come to the House this evening. We all woke up on 24 April last and heard the alert that Mexican or H1 N1 flu was here and had been detected in Mexico. It is an indication of the successful job the Minister is doing when one hears the two main Opposition speakers congratulating her Department and the HSE for the great work they have...

Swine Flu Outbreak: Statements (6 May 2009)

Seanad: Swine Flu Outbreak: Statements (6 May 2009)

Joe O'Toole: We are quick to criticise the Department of Health and Children time and again when things go wrong. The morning after swine flu hit the headlines, one of the British-Irish tabloids carried a front-page story that Ireland was unready, unable and without plans to respond. The Minister and her staff at the Department have handled the matter with the expertise that I look for in Government....

Seanad: Swine Flu Outbreak: Statements (6 May 2009)

Phil Prendergast: ...took time out to explain to us what was happening. It is always better to give people the information before they read about it as that gives us a chance to have a prepared response. I hope swine flu will be contained and we do not get any more cases in Ireland. If we do, I hope we will handle them correctly. I thank the Minister again for the way in which the issue has been handled.

Seanad: Swine Flu Outbreak: Statements (6 May 2009)

Mary Harney: ...the meeting last Thursday, I was reassured to know we are as prepared as anybody else, but it is clear that in the event of a pandemic, all health systems would be challenged. On schools, swine flu was to be considered today by the Department of Education and Science at its management meeting, but the guidelines suggest that, in the event of an outbreak in a crèche, the crèche would be...

Seanad: Swine Flu Outbreak: Statements (6 May 2009)

Mary Harney: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the Seanad on the ongoing situation in relation to the current outbreak of influenza and the measures being taken in response to the outbreak On Friday, 24 April 2009, a public health alert was received from the World Health Organisation indicating that human cases of influenza type A(H1 N1) virus infection had been identified in the US and Mexico. On 26...

Seanad: Swine Flu Outbreak: Statements (6 May 2009)

Frances Fitzgerald: I would like to share time with Senator Liam Twomey. I thank the Minister for coming to the House to brief Senators on the situation regarding influenza A(H1 N1). I pay tribute to the medical experts in the Department of Health and Children, particularly the chief medical officer, Dr. Tony Holohan, and his team, for their excellent leadership on this issue, the crisis management provisions...