Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 April 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update

Mr. Damien McCallion:

Sure. They are clearly some of the most vulnerable people that we need to get to. The ambulance service is working through those and if there is an individual case that has been escalated, we are happy to close that out. They respond to people and as I have said, there is probably no more than approximately three weeks or 300 people left. There are already 1,600 people done. The referral goes from the GP through to the ambulance service and they work right around the country to visit these people and vaccinate them. If there are individual cases where people feel they have not had contact but have been referred for some time already, the assurance we give in general terms is that we are completing the process over the coming weeks. If there is a specific case, people have put forward such cases in the past and we have ensured contact was made to give some comfort and reassurance that they have not been forgotten in the process.

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