Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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810. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration is being given to 24-hour vaccination centres; and the centres that could facilitate same. [24217/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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811. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to offer a Covid-19 vaccine to Irish athletes who have qualified for the Olympic Games; and if he has engaged Sport Ireland on this issue. [24219/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I note the announcement last week by Pfizer/BioNTech to donate doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to the participants of the Olympic Games, around the world.

These doses of vaccine will be supplementary to the existing allocations that Ireland is administering and will be provided to Olympic and Paralympic athletes and support staff who are travelling to Tokyo to represent Ireland, the number of whom is in the low hundreds.

I look forward to what I hope will be a successful Olympic and Paralympic games for our athletes.