Offer of Covid vaccines to Mater hospital board 'completely unacceptable' says Health Minister

The Health Minister said the vaccine rollout is proceeding well despite high profile incidents of vaccines administered in an unacceptable manner. Picture: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has described reports that board members at the Mater Hospital were offered a Covid-19 vaccine as “completely unacceptable.” 

Mr Donnelly told Newstalk’s Pat Kenny show that the vaccine roll-out programme was going “really well” but that “completely unacceptable situations with the board of the Mater, for example, with the Beacon Hospital, for example, schools in south Dublin and north Wicklow CHO