Italians talking about paying taxes 
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By their logic a policeman couldnāt arrest you ever sure.
Sir you are under arrest for murder.
You canāt arrest me I pay taxes
The smelly useless shower of lazy cunts are right hindsight merchants alright.
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Ah yes, the doctors will look after us all
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They just eh happened to be left over. For fuck sake. Like.
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I would like to see the original list prepared and how much it was allowed to overlap the available stock quantity
Can you paste the article if poss?
Boss man doctor gave 2 spare vaccines to his adult kids. Who donāt appear to be in vulnerable category.
Speed trumps perfection.
Let it go would be my advice.
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Fucking hell
The master of the Coombe maternity hospital in Dublin has apologised after it emerged the hospital gave Covid-19 vaccines to 16 family members of staff.
Prof Michael OāConnell, the hospitalās manager, said he now regrets that relatives of hospital employees were vaccinated with doses left over on Friday, January 8th after more than 1,100 doses were given to frontline staff, GPs and local community health workers.
Two of the recipients are understood to be Dr OāConnellās children, one of whom is college-going age, and is a paid part-time worker in his private medical practice. The other works intermittently in the hospital as an unpaid worker.
In response to questions submitted by The Irish Times, the consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist said in a statement the decision to use the doses already made up as part of the roll-out of vaccines at the hospital that day was made to ensure no vaccine āwas wastedā.
āHad they not been used they would have been discarded. I was keenly aware of that and throughout the evening and from 9.30pm onward I personally made every effort to prioritise and identify additional frontline workers and followed all measures available to me at the time,ā he said.
āIn hindsight, as Master I deeply regret that family members of employees were vaccinated and for that I wholeheartedly apologise.ā
The hospital said that among the 16 recipients, nine were over 70 and the remaining seven were āof varying ageā. It would not identify the individuals.
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Prioritisation
The Health Service Executive is currently prioritising people aged 65 and older in nursing homes and other care settings and frontline healthcare workers due to the limited supply of vaccines available.
The Coombe said it was able to produce more than 120 additional vaccines, beyond what was anticipated, from its supply of vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on January 8th.
The hospital said the HSE vaccination booking system did not go live until the following day and so it was not possible to pre-book vaccinations and to be certain of the doses required.
āThe team at the hospital proactively contacted the HSE to inform them of the additional available doses and actively sought out frontline workers to vaccinate,ā it said.
The Coombe said it followed Government guidelines on the day and focused on the two current priority groups.
āThat evening there were 16 vaccine doses that had been made up [reconstituted] remained, and to ensure that vaccines were not wasted they were administered to family members of employees of the hospital,ā it said.
One staff member said: āItās disgraceful that the master of the hospital arranged for his children to get the vaccine.ā
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said he would be seeking a full account of what happened with the vaccine rollout at the Coombe from the chairman of the hospitalās board.
Mr Donnelly said he was first made aware of the issue on Sunday night.
āTrust in the vaccine programme is of critical importance and what happened should not have happened,ā he said.
āOur vaccine allocation strategy clearly sets out a priority list for vaccination - and thatās currently for frontline healthcare workers and residents and staff of our long-term resident care facilities.
āIt does not include family members of healthcare workers.ā
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In hindsight he regrets it
Thatās that sorted so, nothing to see here
Itās happening in every hospital and nursing home in the country these past few weeks.
Thereās always a few leftover and they must be used or thrown out. Itās a case of ringing anyone in the vicinity of the place to ask them to come in.
Itās not perfect but itās the right thing to do in the circumstances.
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Lads
He has to go
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Agree no one wants waste, however Iām sure a few more suitable people than his kids could have been found.
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I heard they just happened to be outside in the car with their sleeves rolled up. Incredible luck.
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It was 9.30pm on a Friday night by all accounts. Iād cut him some slack.
As expected, Ewan adopting the āShoot first, ask questions laterā approach.
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Itās 7 fookin vaccines ā¦
Our new medical overlords might be in danger of oversepping the mark here if they donāt buck up
Israel doing this. They send out some alert if thereās any leftover and first come first served
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