Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 July 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on the Roll-out of the EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate

Ms Elizabeth Canavan:

To begin with, we effectively had a massive backlog of everybody whom we had information on. Some of the people who maybe were vaccinated earlier who did not received their certificate yet may either, most likely, have been a bounce back - an incorrect postal address - or be one of a small number remaining in a category that I will let Mr. McCallion talk about in a moment. Once a person receives his or her second dose, that data is now being updated and that data file is being made available for the purposes of generating the certificates. On an ongoing basis, we are releasing that information once the second dose of vaccine has been administered. People are seeing a reasonably quick turnaround once that data gets into the OGCIO system. That is where we are at on that.

A person is not eligible for a certificate of recovery until 11 days after being tested. Once a person has passed that milestone, he or she is eligible and can apply. That certificate will be valid for 180 days.

Does Mr. McCallion want to say a little about the other certificates we have not been able to issue yet?

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