Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for his comments. To update the House, the housebound vaccination programme commenced on 12 March. At the end of this week, 740 people will have been vaccinated. The first dose has been completed in Dublin city and county, the north east and the midlands, and vaccination has commenced in the south east and will continue there this week. In the coming weeks, the programme will expand to the west and south of the country. All first doses are expected to be administered throughout the country in early April. A lot of progress has been made on the statutory home care scheme and I will get a note to the Deputy. This year, 128 people will be recruited to do an assessment of need, which is the InterRAI single assessment tool for the roll-out. I will come back to the Deputy with a more substantial note on this.

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