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The Minister for Health said just under 10,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine are expected to arrive in Ireland on St Stephen s Day
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said the first Covid-19 vaccines will be administered on 30 December.
Minister Donnelly said frontline healthcare workers and nursing homes will be vaccinated first and they can then have a different conversation about opening up .
Speaking on RTÉ s News at One, he said just under 10,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine are expected to arrive in Ireland on St Stephen s Day.
The minister said that a second shipment of several tens of thousands doses would arrive in the first week of January and every week from then.
Live: Details emerge as Government to make announcement on UK to Ireland travel ban
Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands have already banned travel from the UK
An extremely quiet Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport (Image: Collins Agency, Dublin)
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said that the Government will make an announcement later today regarding restrictions on travel from the UK.
Italy, Belgium and The Netherlands have already banned travel from the UK today.
This comes after serious concern regarding the new strain of Covid-19 found in South-Eastern England which is out of control .
Minister Stephen Donnelly hinted on RTE s News at One that some travel restrictions will be implemented here in Ireland.
Sharing the Vision steering committee members announced
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly and the Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People, Mary Butler, have today (December 14) revealed the names of the people who will help drive reform of the country’s mental health sector over the next decade.
Chaired by the Chief Executive of the mental health charity Shine, John Saunders, the 17-member National Implementation and Monitoring Committee (NIMC) will implement the Government’s 10-year plan for mental health provision, Sharing the Vision – A Mental Health Policy for Everyone.
Saunders, who was Chair of the 2nd Independent Monitoring Group to oversee and report on the implementation of Sharing the Vision’s successor, a Vision of Change, said the NIMC’s membership represented “a broad and diverse spectrum of mental health professionals and advocates, including people with lived experience, all of whom are highly qualified and bring considerable expertise to