Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Aligning Disability Services with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Lorna McGreehan:

We need a register of people with chronic disease and disabilities. In terms of the pandemic and the vaccine, because I was dealing with a hospital outside of my area and the local health board had issued appointments to all of the people on its books who were chronically ill, they all got the vaccine before I did. The hospital in Dublin would not look after me. As a result, I had to wait until such time as my GP was able to administer it. My local health board was not aware that I have a chronic disease.

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