Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 17 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed)

Mr. Damien McCallion:

Sure. From a public health perspective, we can try to give the Deputy more detail on the priority groups Ms McArdle has set out. The number is deemed to be sufficient if we get a 90% uptake, which is high. Obviously, this year in particular we hope we will see high uptake, both in the general population and particularly in our staff groups. I think Ms McArdle and Mr. Woods mentioned earlier that a lot of work has started in respect of our own staff groups. Then the programme for roll-out in the general population and the communications campaign will be aligned with the availability of the vaccine. Perhaps we can get the Deputy more specific dates on that separately.

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