THE NATIONAL PUBLIC Health Emergency Team (NPHET) is to discuss the possibility of introducing mandatory vaccination.
The issue is to be discussed after the Department of Health prepares a legal and ethical paper.
Minutes of NPHET’s meeting from 16 December, published on Friday, said:
“It was noted that the NPHET will discuss the issue of mandatory vaccination at a later date and this discussion will be facilitated by a forthcoming paper from the Department of Health on the relevant ethical and legal considerations pertaining to this topic.”
Taoiseach Micheál Martin told Newstalk Breakfast before Christmas that he would be against mandatory Covid-19 vaccines, saying that he preferred the “voluntary” approach.
“In my view, I think we have to keep pushing the voluntary approach.
“I do get the point the unvaccinated take up a disproportionate element of the health service… [but] I think we should keep going with the approach we…
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