Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As to prioritisation, what it has concluded recently, which we published, was, if one likes, a clinical prioritisation, looking at those with underlying conditions and age cohorts, and it did some very detailed work in terms of prioritising according to vulnerability. What it is now looking at is the next and very large grouping, which is key workers, for example, family carers. Many people have been advocating on behalf of family carers and I have a lot of sympathy for them, particularly family carers of children, who I believe are caught between two stools at the moment. One of the things NIAC is now looking at is key workers, including, for example, the role they play in supporting healthcare or the vaccination programme itself, or other essential activities, such as education, caring and so forth.