John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is scope to advance the schedule of vaccination against Covid-19 for schoolteachers, special needs assistants and all school staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11670/21]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The vaccine protocol devised by the National Immunisation Advisory Committee is endorsed by the National Public Health Emergency Team and signed up to by Government.

The Department of Health have confirmed that those essential to Education are estimated at this time to be in the first one third of the population captured by the Vaccine Allocation Strategy.

My Department has further engaged with the Department of Health requesting that consideration is given to school community as the vaccination programme is rolled out.