Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly did not submit a recent report on pay for student nurses and midwives to the Cabinet for approval today, according to sources in his Department.
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has confirmed that as of Sunday, 94,000 people or 1.9pc of our population, had received their first dose of a vaccine.
Two Dublin maternity hospitals have confirmed they administered vaccines to non-staff members and say it was because there were doses which would have been discarded if not used on the day.
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said that yesterday (Tuesday) was a ray of light as the first Covid-19 vaccines were administered in a number of Irish hospitals.
Dublin woman Annie Lynch (79) was the first person to receive the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Ireland
She got the vaccine yesterday at St James s Hospital in Dublin 8, where she is currently a patient, alongside healthcare workers from the hospital who were also vaccinated. It is testament to the work of the medical and scientific communities that we now have safe and effective vaccines to help to protect us against the devastating effects of Covid-19, said Minister Donnelly.