PPE for community drug team
Deputy Donnelly raised a Dublin 15 community drug team's lack of PPE and funding, saying the HSE had refused support. The Taoiseach said he would ask the Health Minister to pursue the matter and check the details.
The programme for Government states:
The new government will ensure that as services resume, they are delivered in a planned, appropriate and considered manner. Our priority is to protect public health, patients and to ensure capacity for future surges of COVID-19.
I am a member of the Dublin 15 community drug team. We had a board meeting last Friday and one of the serious issues that arose was funding, particularly for personal protective equipment, PPE. Unfortunately, to date, the only PPE that has been given to the community drug team, as far as I know from reading the report, was a box of face masks. If such teams are to reopen in September, it is very important that funding be given to all community drug teams.
Comment on this
I will ask the Minister for Health to pursue that matter. Has the team been in touch with the HSE in respect of this?
Comment on this
Yes, it has. It has been refused funding.