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

That is a very good suggestion. We thank the Deputy for volunteering for the vaccination programme early on. Others in the House also volunteered in various capacities to help out in their local communities. The voluntary, unpaid workers at the vaccination centres played a very significant role. They were partly responsible for creating the ethos of a community-based response to this one-in-100-year event. We have to keep reminding ourselves that this is a pandemic of a kind that has not been experienced since the early part of last century. There are many uncertainties attached to it. As a country, we must work collectively on it. As an Oireachtas, we must do so too.

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