Covid-19 Evaluation

Public Consultation is Open

Share your experience

Everyone in Ireland felt the impact of the pandemic response – but each experience is different.

The independent COVID-19 Evaluation wants to understand the wide-ranging impacts. This Consultation gives you an opportunity to share your personal experience.  

Your input will help the Evaluation learn lessons to guide decision making for future events. 

Share Your Individual Experience

Need a printed survey? Email us
Prefer to talk? Call 01 619 4500

Individual Submissions

If you wish to send a personal submission email us to request a form.

Long-term residential care facilities for older persons

There will be additional consultation that includes the perspectives of residents/relatives, staff and Nursing Homes providers / person in charge. 

Register your interest: Email us

Share Wider Experiences

Stakeholder / Organisation Submissions

Highlight diverse impacts across social, health, education, economic, and human & civil rights.

Academic / Researcher

If you wish to share research: Email us

Consultation and Engagement Approach

Wide-ranging consultation seeks to capture people’s lived experiences of the pandemic right across Irish society. The public survey does this by drawing out personal experiences and how this may vary for different people. This is supplemented by opportunities for individuals and representatives to provide more detailed contributions. This mixed approach seeks to maximise participation and provide a solid understanding of diverse perspectives.

Key themes and insights from consultations will be made available on the Evaluation’s website in a phased way, to give the process greater validity.

There will be a separate consultation with Children and Young people.  There will also be further consultation relating to long term residential care facilities for older persons / Nursing Homes.

Consultation will encompass a variety of methods including publicly streamed roundtables, and specific private or group sessions.

Opening a window to your experience

Overall consultation will seek to incorporate: 

Public consultation to capture wide-spread accounts of lived experiences
Separate stream to hear the experiences of children and young people
Submissions sought from specific individuals, cohorts or their representatives
Private or group sessions as appropriate to gain deeper insights into lived experience for specific cohorts, such as experiences relating to long-term residential care facilities, experiences of the chronically ill and their carers
Publicly streamed events to allow for wide-ranging discussions with key decision-makers and/or expert panellists on emerging topics
Opportunity for follow up private sessions with key decision-makers for deeper information gathering and the probing of submitted materials.