Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is a separate question, which is more general to the health service. I have consistently said the Government wishes to recognise not only front-line healthcare workers but front-line workers, and is continuing to examine the optimal way of doing this. However, we are not out of the pandemic yet and all our attention and focus are on making sure we continue with progress on the vaccination programme and the very positive impact the vaccination programme is having on the prevalence of the disease and monitoring variants, such as the Delta variant, to make sure they do not undermine our efforts to keep the virus under pressure. We will keep in touch with the Deputy on the issue.

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