Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 March 2022

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community

Soláthar Seirbhísí Sláinte: Plé.

Mr. Paul Reid:

I will make a couple of quick remarks and then ask Dr. Fitzgerald to provide an update. I will mention again where our focus was. We had very good information based on geography and population across the country but, as we reached high levels of vaccine uptake in the primary programme, we became concerned about vulnerable groups and non-Irish groups in particular. Our approach involved a number of languages, which my colleague will outline. While, as I said in my opening statement, we targeted particular languages, I acknowledge that we recorded a version in English, which was put up on our site. In hindsight, we should have recorded an Irish version as well. However, as Dr. Fitzgerald will outline, the target population was very clear because of the vulnerabilities and exposure among those groups. We did make progress through that communications campaign. I will ask Dr. Fitzgerald to list the specific groups.

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