Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 29 January 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Update
Mr. David Walsh:
It is an important issue. The nursing home vaccines were always allocated. We knew we were going to use them and we just drew the timeframe forward by one week.
On front-line healthcare workers being vaccinated through hospitals, there was one extremely busy week. I do not have a calendar in front of me to allow me to specify which week that was. Many hospitals had arranged clinics in the expectation that they would continue to receive supplies at the same level. That was never going to be possible given our supply constraints. A number of the clinics that the hospitals had prospectively arranged were then deferred. We are now planning for the recommencement of those once we get through the second doses that are already scheduled for the big first group. By the middle of February, we will be flat out again vaccinating priority front-line healthcare workers.
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