Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 December 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion

Dr. Colm Henry:

In the initial phase we are looking at small batches and it will be leaning on the schools vaccination programme for the administration of the vaccine to people in long-term residential care settings and staff. As we get more information on the volume and type of vaccine coming through and the timeline, we will then develop the plan for timing and staff from all those healthcare professions as referred to earlier, for the mass vaccination centres, hospitals and the other locations. Those plans have not yet been finalised. The principal determiner of those plans is the volume and timeline of delivery of the successive types of vaccine, those for which we have advance purchasing approval and those for which we are awaiting approvals from the European Medicines Agency.