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:
We have defined the needs from the public health perspective and we will respond to the Deputy on that. I am not a public health physician. I am simply describing what we have secured at the moment on that basis. Ms McArdle has described the groups that are part of the flu vaccination programme. Separately, I have described the challenge that exists in the marketplace due to Covid-19, namely, that a large number of countries are looking to secure the vaccination at the same time and extra pressure is created by Covid-19.
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