catherine cox Why should unpaid family carers who give extraordinary care be treated any differently to paid carers on jab list? Comment Updated: 4 Mar 2021, 20:27 FAMILY Carers Ireland deplores the continued failure to prioritise family carers in the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine. While we welcome the Government’s recent decision to move many patients aged 16-69 with serious underlying health conditions up the priority list based on advice from NIAC, the fact that family carers are not even mentioned in the revised listing is deeply disappointing. 2 Catherine Cox from Family Carers Ireland writes in today's Irish Sun calling for family carers to be prioritised in the vaccine rollout