A plan for an updated Covid-19 booster programme, is due to be published this week in an effort to ensure 1.5 million people have received a third Covid-19 jab by Christmas.
Yesterday, Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris said now was the time to "boost the booster campaign" as the Department of Health confirmed four new Omicron cases have been detected.
Speaking on RTÉ's The Week In Politics, Mr Harris said an update on the programme would be published in the coming days and there was an eagerness to move ahead with third injections for the over 40s.
He also said it was "a race between the Omicron variant and the booster". Thousands of people were given Covid-19 booster jabs at walk in HSE vaccination clinics across the country