David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I hope we will get progress on this issue, and I think everybody accepts it is an urgent issue. My final question concerns category 6 key workers. The decision to not use the AstraZeneca vaccine for those aged over 65 years old means that the people in this key worker group will be the second next category to be inoculated with the AstraZeneca vaccine. There is still no definition of who is a key worker. Has that work been done? I ask this question because we are being asked about this issue. We have many key workers, or people who see themselves as key workers, who are asking us where they sit and what is the definition and when are we going to see the detail in this respect. We have not seen it, and yet this category is going to be quickly part of the roll-out of the vaccination process. Can the Minister briefly explain where we are with that process?

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