Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on the Cyberattack, Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out and Covid-19 Restrictions in Maternity Hospitals: Health Service Executive

Mr. Paul Reid:

I assume the Deputy is referring to the vaccination programme. From our perspective, we have mobilised whatever level of vaccine we have been able to get our hands on. Last week alone, we administered more than 52,000 doses on four of the seven days. Last Thursday, we administered almost 60,000 vaccines. Yesterday alone, we administered 54,000.

We will mobilise to whatever the level of supplies, that will be possible to get, may be. That will include a combination of our vaccination centres, our GPs, pharmacies, National Ambulance Service, and our community vaccination teams across the country. We will mobilise to whatever the level of supplies may be and that has always been our commitment. In fact, it has been more than that. It has been to mobilise and deliver them efficiently to the percentage levels that have been seen, the high 90s in percentage terms in any given week. We now have vaccination centres with significant levels of capacity should further supplies become available.