Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Regarding long-term residential care homes, anybody over 65 would have been vaccinated in such settings. A patient in an acute hospital setting would be vaccinated in the community because he or she might be not there for the second vaccine. I was told that is the reasoning. A patient might be there for 12,14 or 16 days but they are not vaccinated in the hospital setting. That person would be vaccinated in the community. If a new entrant goes into a nursing home who has not been vaccinated, we will not go back into the nursing homes on a weekly or two-weekly basis. We cannot do that. They would have to receive the vaccine through their GP. That is my understanding regarding acute hospitals.