Peter Fitzpatrick (Louth, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise a very serious concern around the vaccination programme and the fact that only 100 minutes has been set aside this week to debate this very urgent topic. I and many other Members are facing phone calls from our constituents to get answers on the roll out of the vaccine programme. In my Louth constituency there are major concerns about the roll out of the vaccine in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. Midwives and nurses in the labour ward of the maternity section were promised the vaccination last week. It was postponed and now they are not even being told when they might be vaccinated. It is also being reported that other workers in the hospital who are working in non-Covid sections, including porters and office staff, have received the vaccine. I put it to the Taoiseach that this is wrong and I ask that he please attend to it.

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