Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said the Government is considering a dedicated campaign on vaccinations to reach out to communities who do not speak English.
It comes as Central Statistics Office data shows that eastern European nationals working in Ireland have the lowest rates of vaccination at 44%, compared to 67% of Western European nationals and 90% of Irish nationals.
The CSO found that nationality-based data shows low vaccine uptake rates of 26% for nationals of EU14-27 countries working in agriculture, forestry and fishing, reflecting the high proportion of seasonal workers in these sectors.
The EU14-27 countries are those states that joined the EU on 1 May 2004. They are the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary,