Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 December 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion

Professor Brian MacCraith:

I thank Deputy Lahart. The normal decision making is across all the key positions, such as I read out at the start of my introduction, and all of these structures in place still remain. With regard to the boss of the integrated programme, we have appointed a programme director who sits above the whole integrated work programme. That person reports into the high-level task force. If there are issues to be escalated or addressed, I now attend the Covid-19 oversight group weekly, chaired by Mr. Martin Fraser. The decision making and putting detail in the documents, especially the strategy of the document, of the Government's arrangements are across into the Department of Health and the HSE, as appropriate, and with an emphasis on making decisions in as agile a way as possible. The implementation plan is a living, agile document that was accurate up to last Friday. Even the circumstances and the information we have received in the past few days changes things. Its adaption is ongoing.

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