Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The roll-out to front-line health is an operational decision which has been given to each of the hospital groups. Therefore there may be GPs vaccinated in one county or city in the same way that residents in one nursing home might be vaccinated a week or two before another, or that nurses and doctors might be vaccinated in one hospital before another, or indeed colleagues in the same hospital. There is a national roll-out programme. It has started. GPs are part of the front-line healthcare worker group, which is the second cohort. They are very high priority. There are approximately 150,000 front-line healthcare workers, including the GPs. The plan is to have vaccinated 70,000 of the 150,000 with the first dose by Sunday week. On day 22, the teams cycle back for the second dose.

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