Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 October 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023

9:30 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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Okay. I will follow that up by way of a parliamentary question.

On vaccines, is the HSE doing an assessment on the uptake given the storage costs? Is there an assessment of what the take-up might be? Anecdotally, I am hearing that people are probably feeling less at risk than they did. One will find people in risk categories where there definitely is a different attitude. How does the HSE make that assessment to avoid the oversupply because, obviously, we all understand a little bit more about how these viruses mutate and how they go out of date?