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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Again, we are not going to hold the HSE to this, but there are ten days left in April, about 400,000 vaccines are due to come in, 1.2 million vaccines have been administered up to today, and if everything went okay, where might we be at the end of April?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: We are at 1.2 million doses today. Where would we be if those figures come through by 30 April?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: So that is 1.46 million vaccines.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: For six weeks, we have been promised that there would be 0.25 million vaccines done next week. Does the HSE have the capacity to reach 0.25 million vaccines if all of the winds blew in its direction, and pharmacists and dentists were on board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: So, hiccups have held up progress.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Can the vaccination programme reach 0.25 million vaccines a week?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: I apologise to the Chair if I came across as blunt but I had just ten minutes and it would be great if we had an hour. Finally, I appreciate the detailed answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: I thank the witnesses for their work. I am sorry that time does not allow us to be more effusive than that but they can take it that we very much appreciate the work they are doing. I will not say that we have learned from mistakes, but a significant amount has been learned since before Christmas. I believe everyone understands the need for the cautious and gradual approach which, although...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Okay. Dr. Glynn cannot shed any light on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Okay. Can Dr. Glynn name the variants of concern? Are there any we have not heard of? There is the Brazilian variant, the B.1.1.7 variant and the South African variant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: How many people have been fully vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: How many people have been fully vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: According to the preliminary or draft programme or calendar issued by the Government, we were looking at the administration of 3.9 million vaccines by the end of June. I hope that will happen. That is not my question. We see the ratio on the app every day. It is approximately 2.5:1 between first doses and fully vaccinated people. That would mean that, if everything goes to plan - and, if...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: To go back to the issue of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, it is good news that it is available. I am sure other members will be asking the witnesses to flesh out the details in that regard, so I will leave that to them. We are due to get 600,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is essentially equivalent to 1.2 million doses of AstraZeneca or another two-jab...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: I wish to add my voice on the issue of signage and all of that. Whoever the contributors and stakeholders are, the signage has become wallpaper. It became wallpaper six months ago. I think it could be revisited and refreshed it in terms of reinforcing the message around caution. One of the restrictions that was eased involves two fully vaccinated people being allowed to meet indoors to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Some of my constituents live here and may have been working abroad under contract and have been fully vaccinated. I absolutely support hotel quarantine, but I do not get why there is an insistence on it for those who have a house here, are fully vaccinated and quite willing to quarantine at home. As two fully vaccinated people here are allowed to meet, why is there an insistence on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: So two vaccinated people being allowed to meet makes sense because, obviously, they have both been vaccinated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: It is the variant; I get that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Okay. I will stop Dr. Glynn there. That was a comprehensive answer. It would be very useful if he could arrange for a brief paper on that issue to be sent to the committee because it is a question that often comes up from constituents. My final question also relates to constituents. GPs have received calls this morning, politicians have received emails and calls in the past 24 hours...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic: National Public Health Emergency Team (13 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: I thank Mr. O'Brien.