Written answers

Tuesday, 27 July 2021

Department of Health

Vaccination Programme

Photo of Róisín ShortallRóisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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2659. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an updated supply forecast for the number of vaccine doses expected to be received into Ireland for the remainder of 2021, in tabular form. [38671/21]

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Ireland's COVID-19 vaccination programme strategy is to distribute all available vaccines as quickly as operationally possible, prioritising those who are most vulnerable. Ireland received approximately 5.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in the first six months of 2021.

As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is ongoing, and the HSE is working hard to restore its IT capacity and resume normal services. Members of the Oireachtas will be advised as soon as the HSE is again in a position to provide responses to PQs and are encouraged to resubmit their Parliamentary Questions at that point.

Photo of Róisín ShortallRóisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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2660. To ask the Minister for Health the number of first and second vaccine doses administered to each vaccine cohort in tabular form. [38672/21]

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The COVID-19 Data Hub has now been restored after being temporarily shut-down in the aftermath of the cyber attack.

The Data Hub provides a breakdown of the number of doses delivered to each cohort. The number of first and second doses as of 19 July are listed below.

Cohort First Dose Second Dose
Residents aged 65+ in LTCF 114,567 108,714
Frontline healthcare workers 275,667 266,630
People aged 70 years and older 479,138 455,085
People aged 16-69 years of age at very-high risk of severe COVID-19 disease 282,137 265,435
All people aged 60-69 years 338,396 325,689
People aged 16-59 years with medical conditions at high risk of severe COVID-19 disease 254,194 208,618
All other people aged under 60 years 1,206,796 646,657

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