A senior Government minister has said now was the time to "boost the booster campaign" in relation to Covid-19. Speaking on RTÉ's The Week In Politics, Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris said an update on the programme would be published this week and there was an eagerness to move ahead with third injections for the over 40s.
He said the Government's aim was to ensure 1.5 million people had received their booster by Christmas, adding that it is a race between the booster and the Omicron variant.
On schools, Mr Harris said that nobody can guarantee anything in relation to the virus, adding that there is space to do more on ventilation in schools.