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- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for his questions and suggestions. I agree on the app. It was a great success. Particularly now that we have moved into the vaccination phase, we could probably do with a review to determine whether there is a bigger role for it. The Deputy will be aware that the vaccination numbers are on the app but I would be very happy to ask my team to conduct a review and...
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: It would take more than a minute or a minute and a half to respond adequately to the Deputy's questions. No one is saying that everything is going perfectly with the roll-out. It is not going perfectly and there have been issues, as discussed here today, in terms of some consumables not arriving and some vaccination dates for GPs having been changed. Nobody is suggesting that it is going...
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I will finish on this point. On top of that, we have correctly prioritised those who are most vulnerable.
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for the various points she raised. On the question of consumables arriving with vaccines, they should arrive with them. There have been small number of cases where this has not happened, and it is not good enough. The HSE is looking at that and we must demand better. It is common sense the right consumables and syringes to get the sixth dose out of the vials need to...
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: The decisions on the locations of the larger vaccination centres were operational decisions of the HSE. To Deputy O'Dowd's point, by no means does this have to be the final and definitive list. If it is the case that a large vaccination centre is required in Drogheda, that will be provided. I wish to give the Deputy some comfort in the fact that people in or around Drogheda do not need to...
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: Regarding general practice, we are all aware that a number of GPs have contacted many politicians and have taken to the airwaves to express their frustration. It was always a three-week programme. In week one 255 GP clinics were involved; week two added another 500; this week the number is 542. There is a number. I am told that in about 65 practices where for various reasons it has not...
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy for his very constructive ideas. I will engage with him. If he would like to meet up or send me something on exactly how we might use the app that would be great. We were a world leader in terms of the app. I believe it was the first multijurisdictional app anywhere in the world and I would love to see it used more. As he knows we have put the number of doses...
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: How much time have I got? Is the Deputy sharing time?
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I fully appreciate where the Deputy is coming from on those with cystic fibrosis. As he said, it is a relatively small cohort. NIAC looked very carefully not just at conditions but at the range of conditions and it had to make clinical judgments based on the impact that Covid appears to have on those groups. It did that with cystic fibrosis. It has identified different severities of...
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: Let me take a look. The last time I checked the majority of the Moderna doses had gone out. We will look at that. On the April date, there is absolutely a lot of focus on this. We are going from 86,000 this week up to, hopefully if the supplies come in, 250,000 in four weeks' time.
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: The plan has been published. We have the 40 vaccination centres, which are the 37 centres and the three GP hubs, and the pharmacies and the GP practices. I will get a more detailed note for colleagues on exactly that. I will also revert to Deputy Shortall in writing on the rest.
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: How long have I got to answer?
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I will be very quick.
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I will first address the query on cohorts and I will revert in writing on the rest. The short answer on cohorts 5, 6 and 7, and it is a fair question, is that they are in that sequence because NIAC has determined, using the clinical evidence available, that that is the prioritisation of risk in terms of vulnerability. For example, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, has just pointed out...
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy's questions are absolutely appropriate to the people he represents. The short answer on the vaccination centres is that they were operational decisions of the HSE based on population analysis. If it is the case that a second, bigger vaccination centre is appropriate for Donegal, it will be set up. I will give a commitment to the Deputy that I will ask the HSE after this debate...
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: I will get the Deputy a written response.
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: First and foremost, the pharmacists are being vaccinated because they are front-line healthcare workers. It is more complex when it comes to other people working in the pharmacy, but if they are deemed to be within the cohort of front-line healthcare workers based on a detailed set of protocols put together by the HSE, they would be included.
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: Can the Deputy give me those two figures again?
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: The deliveries to date have now been published. The Deputy will be able to get them on her telephone now or after the debate. I have asked the Department to provide regular updates. I believe daily updates could lead to a great deal of anxiety. One could see 80,000 arrive in on a single day and if one just took that day, and there are some people who will use the information to try to...
- Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (4 Mar 2021)
Stephen Donnelly: It is certainly something I can take up with the task force.