Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If anyone in any of the cohorts being done now or that will be done next, which are the high-risk, very high-risk and underlying condition categories, has any worry about not being contacted by a GP, they or a family member can make a telephone call to 185 024 1850. As the Deputy quite rightly said, not everyone has a GP and not everyone is on a list. I know in my constituency in Wicklow, for example, it was impossible for a long time to even get on a list for a GP, such was the shortage of supply.

I see no issue why consultants could not refer. I know at the moment, based on NIAC's latest clinical advice on the very high-risk category, the HSE is working with the consultant body to identify its patients who would meet the various criteria and, therefore, it may well be that the consultants have a role to play with that cohort.

Ultimately, when we move to bigger population levels, people will be able to essentially sign up online themselves through a portal. Not yet, however, but when we get to the wider general population cohorts.