Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 December 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion

Photo of Annie HoeyAnnie Hoey (Labour) | Oireachtas source

Yes, although there may be a political matter to be addressed. What about people defining how they live in such situations?

It was mentioned that there were at least 15 locations under consideration as sites for vaccination centres outside Dublin. When will that information be available? We know that there will be vaccination centres outside Dublin, but a person reading this document might be concerned that there will not be.

Questions have been asked and answered around IT infrastructure, accessibility, IT poverty and equality of access, but what about the issue of data protection, which is everyone's favourite topic? How will it be managed and who will be the person responsible for it?

We have discussed staffing. Comprehensive work has been done on the staffing requirements, but how will we meet them? How will we meet the nursing requirements in particular, given that we have a shortage of nurses across the healthcare sector? The use of contracted private vaccination services to roll out the programme raises some red flags in terms of how much it will cost.

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