Written answers
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Department of An Taoiseach
Covid-19 Pandemic
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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148. To ask the Taoiseach when the evaluation of the way Ireland handled the Covid-19 pandemic will commence; the person or body that will oversee the process; the timeframe within which this work will be carried out; the mechanism by which the public, community and voluntary sector will contribute to the process; and if this work will be conducted in public. [5995/22]
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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A comprehensive evaluation of how the country managed COVID-19 will provide an opportunity to learn lessons from our experiences in dealing with a pandemic over the past 2 years. This will help ensure that we are in a better, stronger position if another pandemic or another similar type emergency arrives. We are considering what the best model for this evaluation will be.
Specifically, on Public Health, the Minister for Health recently announced the establishment of a Public Health Reform Expert Advisory Group. The Expert Group will initially focus on identifying learnings from the public health components of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland with a view towards strengthening health protection generally and future public health pandemic preparedness specifically. It is important that we have a strong and robust embedded public health system into the future.
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