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:

I certainly hope that we will be able to move, relatively shortly, away from the spotlight we have, which we do not want. We have a public health role to play and I hope that, as vaccination rolls out and if we can keep incidence low, our role will become less visible, less important and less on the front pages of the newspapers. That is not where we want to be, contrary to some public opinion. It is not what we enjoy. I hope that if we can get the majority of the adult population vaccinated and if disease levels are still low, at that point there will be a step change in the NPHET response. We need to move away from what has been, essentially, an emergency response to-----

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