Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
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754. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for not publishing the HSE valproate response report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36489/20]

Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
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755. To ask the Minister for Health if the outcome of his meeting with relevant patient groups in October 2020 to discuss the publication of the independent medicines and medical devices safety review in the UK and other issues relating to sodium valproate will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36490/20]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 754 and 755 together.

The HSE's report on its Valproate Response Project was not written with a view to publication; however, copies have been provided to the relevant patient groups, Epilepsy Ireland and the Organisation for Anti-Convulsant Syndrome (OACS) Ireland. 

My meeting with Epilepsy Ireland and OACS Ireland to discuss sodium valproate has been rescheduled until next Monday, 23 November.

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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756. To ask the Minister for Health if members of staff at Letterkenny University Hospital were recently tested for Covid-19 and then requested to return to their posts immediately without any reference to self-isolating until the results were known. [36495/20]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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757. To ask the Minister for Health if patients being treated at Letterkenny University Hospital for a period of two weeks initially tested negative for Covid-19 in mid-October 2020 and two weeks later tested positive; the course of action that was taken to contact and trace the way in which the patients contracted the virus; and if patients being treated for other illnesses found themselves in the same spaces as those being treated for Covid-19. [36496/20]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.