Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 December 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion

Dr. Colm Henry:

I will try to answer some of those questions. We have some experience internally because there is significant overlap between the priority groups the Deputy has laid out and the groups that are part of existing vaccination programmes such as the pneumococcal disease and influenza vaccine programmes. In identifying these patients, their health statuses are recorded. The first priority group is defined by age and location but, as one goes down the priority list-----