Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 April 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team
Dr. Ronan Glynn:
The short answer is "Yes". The HSE is doing very specific work in that regard, in particular around possibly harder-to-reach groups or groups that may require information in different ways or in different languages. From our perspective, as I said at the press conference last night, we need to step it up. As a society, however, we need to move away from a certain focus. I fully appreciate and understand the focus on numbers, and we need to keep that focus, but in tandem with that we need to focus increasingly on other issues around vaccines - why people want to get vaccines and why they do not want to get them and what their concerns are - and address them across a range of forums. Again, if people have suggestions for ways in which we need to communicate differently or better regarding vaccines, we are happy to take any of them on board and to try to get messages out through different forums.
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