Fine Gael Deputy Ciaran Cannon is today calling on Health Minister Stephen Donnelly and the HSE to urgently rethink their plans to provide just one mass vaccination centre for the whole of Co. Galway, located at the Ballybrit Racecourse in Galway city.
Deputy Cannon has expressed his serious concerns about the lack of more vaccination centres for Co Galway, following the publication of a list of the centres to be used for mass vaccination of the general population.
“The list published today gives me serious cause for concern. Galway will be very poorly served in having just one centre at Ballybrit on the edge of the city, thus obliging people living in East Galway and Connemara to travel long distances for vaccinations and causing potential traffic issues at this already busy location.
"The list published by the Minister and HSE today outlines that Cork will have five centres, Dublin will have four, and Kerry, Tipperary, Westmeath and Wicklow will have two each.
"It makes no sense to me that the second largest county in Ireland will only have one centre and I’m raising this today with Minister Donnelly and HSE CEO Paul Reid.
"I will be arguing for two additional centres, one in East Galway and one in Connemara. That’s the very least that a county of our size needs,” concluded Deputy Cannon.
