Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 April 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update

Mr. Damien McCallion:

The model is that local service managers made decisions, be they in the public, private or voluntary sector. We would not have that level of breakdown. The number of administrative staff would be consistent with what we have in the entire healthcare system. We would not have the details, however. The model used meant that, initially, staff in hospitals and such like were vaccinated directly. There was huge pressure in the early part of the vaccination programme when there were high prevalence rates of the disease among hospital staff, hospitalisation among healthcare staff and so on. As we moved through, we introduced a portal for healthcare workers. For individual providers, be they public or private, responsibility was placed on them to ensure they identified people. It did not necessarily look-----

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