Mr. David Walsh:

I will start with the question on residents and staff in long-term care. Taking it in chunks, there are four HIQA-registered nursing homes which have not been vaccinated yet on public health advice due to the scale of their outbreaks. That includes both staff and residents - approximately 400 in total. There are probably slightly more staff than residents in that, given the staffing ratios.

There are 117 nursing homes where substantial numbers of staff and residents who could not be vaccinated because they were either actively ill or within four weeks of having been ill. Some of those facilities are emerging from that period so our next task is to plot how we will go back and catch up on all those missed people. I do not have the total figures from those 117 homes but I will seek them.

This week, we are working through psychiatry of later life services, vaccinating those over 65 years of age, and disability facilities. We will have completed all residents over 65 years in those settings this week but we will still have a substantial number of staff to vaccinate in those settings and we will commence doing so of the coming week. I can get more specific figures and send them to the Deputy directly.