Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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701. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the reason behind the decision to remove mandatory masks in lexical settings; and the evidence used to make this decision. [33606/23]

Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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702. To ask the Minister for Health what actions the HSE is taking to prevent the spread of Covid in hospital settings, including details of all precautions taken.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33607/23]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 701 and 702 together.

Please note there is a typo in the above PQ it should read 'To ask the Minister for Health to outline the reason behind the decision to remove mandatory masks in medical settings; and the evidence used to make this decision.'

As the matter raised is a service delivery matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly as soon as possible.