Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 9 June 2020
622. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of persons in each county that have registered to volunteer through the I-VOL app, since the call for volunteers to support the community in response to Covid-19 went out in March 2020. [9658/20]
View answerIn response to the Deputy, as of 29th May, 17,100 volunteers have signed up for Covid-19 volunteering with 47,270 hours being the number of hours volunteered.
The reports available at the following link provide the detailed breakdown in each county. There are two reports:
- New volunteers who registered from 8th March (by county). That report picks those who picked Covid (15,025) and then the total volunteers (16,199). The difference between both is about 1,174 volunteers.
- The second column is all the Pre march 8th volunteers who came back to Opt in to COVID19 volunteering.
