Michael McNamara (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

One of the key recommendations of the Covid committee, of which the Minister was a member, was that in the long term, we should move away from care and congregated settings to care in the community. Rightly, those in congregated settings are a high priority for the Government's vaccination programme. The Minister may correct me if I am wrong but I do not see any mention of those who are in receipt of home care. They have a vulnerability over and above elderly people generally, because two or three different carers are coming into their homes every day, and those carers are also visiting many other homes every day, by necessity. Will this group be prioritised in the roll-out of the vaccination programme? Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice also wants this question answered.

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