Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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216. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a vaccination database in Ireland; if so, the vaccines it covers; the department of the HSE responsible for this database; if this database will be used for the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42383/20]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Government is committed to the timely implementation of a COVID-19 immunisation programme, as soon as one or more vaccines in the EU portfolio are approved for use.  In this regard a High-Level Taskforce was established to support and oversee the development and implementation of the programme.

The Taskforce is supporting my Department and the HSE in developing national COVID-19 vaccination strategy and implementation plan which it is due to be submitted by Friday, 11 December.   I will then bring the plan to Government for consideration and subject to the outcome of this discussion, it is the intention that the Vaccination Strategy and Implementation Plan will be published.

As part of the implementation planning, the HSE is currently arranging for an ICT system to be put in place to deal with the uniqueness of a vaccination plan of this scale.