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# Stephen Donnelly

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Nearly 800 contract tracers now on the books, but concerns raised about redeployment of specialist health workers
25 Nov 2020
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Donnelly commits to inquiry into anti-epilepsy drug linked to birth defects
24 Nov 2020
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'We can't judge anyone for whatever decision they make': Irish emigrants on why they're travelling home this Christmas
21 Nov 2020
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CervicalCheck support group end talks with government as tribunal remains unchanged
20 Nov 2020
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CervicalCheck support group tells government 'time is up' to discuss proposed tribunal
18 Nov 2020
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Health minister says large crowds drinking alcohol outside has 'taken off at scale' the last number of days
Updated 17 Nov 2020
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Health Minister says R number has dropped again to between 0.7 and 0.9
Updated 4 Nov 2020
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Donnelly says HSE contact tracing backlog issue 'won't happen again' as Reid says 'I regret that it happened'
Updated 22 Oct 2020
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Health Minister tells FF TDs that contact tracing 'didn't collapse', and asking patients to contact trace is 'one-off'
21 Oct 2020
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Anger mounts as government learns of contact tracing collapse impacting thousands through the media
21 Oct 2020
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Ireland's Covid tracker app is now linked with similar contact tracing apps from Italy and Germany
19 Oct 2020
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Announcement expected as Cabinet meets to discuss possible Level 4 restrictions in border counties
Updated 14 Oct 2020
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Minister for Health says 'there isn't going to be a longer mid-term break'
Updated 11 Oct 2020
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CMO and Health Minister discussed possibility of moving to Level 4 before Level 5 recommendation
8 Oct 2020
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'It certainly wasn't Stephen Donnelly': Taoiseach says health minister didn't leak NPHET's Level 5 recommendation
Updated 8 Oct 2020
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NPHET looking at whether to mandate the use of face masks instead of visors
7 Oct 2020
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NPHET members believe Level 5 advice 'should have been communicated more carefully to government'
Updated 6 Oct 2020
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Tánaiste stands over NPHET criticisms while Taoiseach's spokesperson says Varadkar is 'entitled to his opinion'
Updated 6 Oct 2020
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Health Minister thanks Ronan Glynn for 'tireless effort' as acting CMO
4 Oct 2020
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Some 'frustration' caused by rescheduling of non-priority flu jabs, Irish Pharmacy Union says
2 Oct 2020
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Donnelly says people shouldn't 'switch off' from Covid restrictions while on holiday
2 Oct 2020
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There was another 'unparliamentary language' incident in the Dáil today
1 Oct 2020
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Donnelly announces plans to double number of public health staff in Ireland
30 Sep 2020
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Health Minister says Dublin's Covid-19 figures 'beginning to stabilise'
24 Sep 2020
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Health Minister contacts HSE to make clear that window visits in nursing homes are not suspended under Level 3
23 Sep 2020
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'Common sense has broken down': Government slammed for 'bonkers' measures and 'mixed messaging'
9 Sep 2020
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Minister to meet with sports bodies to discuss Covid-19 restrictions
4 Sep 2020
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CervicalCheck campaigners welcome health minister's promises on steering group
3 Sep 2020
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Publicans blast 'crazy' new rule requiring details of food orders to be kept for 28 days
Updated 3 Sep 2020
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Officials are not considering putting Dublin into lockdown at present, Donnelly says
2 Sep 2020
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Coronavirus GP consultations set to remain free, health minister confirms
Updated 1 Sep 2020
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Ban on alcohol at gigs under consideration in a bid to allow music events resume
31 Aug 2020
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Campaign group to seek NPHET's 'specific concerns' about live events in meeting with Health Minister
30 Aug 2020
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Cabinet to meet today to consider new Garda enforcement powers
28 Aug 2020
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Focus until Christmas is on reopening society, protecting jobs and the most vulnerable, says minister
26 Aug 2020
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Taoiseach will not 'seek to influence' EU Commission President's decision on Phil Hogan
Updated 26 Aug 2020
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Phil Hogan 'regrets and apologises' for attendance at golfing event after public outcry
Updated 21 Aug 2020
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Major nursing homes report calls for review of staff working conditions in wake of Covid-19 crisis
Updated 19 Aug 2020
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NPHET recommends asking older people to limit time outdoors and to reduce numbers at home gatherings
Updated 18 Aug 2020
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Health Minister says there are no plans to extend the three-county restrictions further ahead of NPHET meeting
Updated 17 Aug 2020
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