Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for that question. I have seen some of the same coverage and I was concerned at some of the things that I was hearing. I have chased much of it up with the HSE and much of what I heard turned out not to be the case. For example, not only can medical students be in our vaccination team, they already are. I met medical students in the Helix who were vaccinating. The position with retired people is the same. We have now trained in excess of 10,000 vaccinators and are continuing to grow that. I think we share the same objective. He can rest assured that it is my intention that the team of vaccinators, which is exactly the point that he is making, is as big as it can be.

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