I am more than happy to get the Deputy a note on that. What I can tell him is that by the end of March, which is in the next five days, we expect to have received in excess of 1.1 million doses. However, I must heavily caveat that statement because the delivery schedules move regularly. The Deputy and I have had this conversation a few times. A large number of vaccines due to come in on 30 March, for example, might come in on 1 or 2 April. Rather than getting too focused on individual days or weeks, which has cause…

As to the Deputy's first point, we do have detailed numbers for every single day for each company. I will ask for a note to be provided but I just wanted to caveat it by saying the provision of that kind of information has caused real anxiety for the public. We obviously know what is expected to the day but these dates get moved around at very short notice. With regard to the number of people we should be able to vaccinate, countries are saying different things. We will see what happens in Denmark, in Ireland and e…

I thank the Deputy for that question. I have seen some of the same coverage and I was concerned at some of the things that I was hearing. I have chased much of it up with the HSE and much of what I heard turned out not to be the case. For example, not only can medical students be in our vaccination team, they already are. I met medical students in the Helix who were vaccinating. The position with retired people is the same. We have now trained in excess of 10,000 vaccinators and are continuing to grow that. I think…

I thank the Deputy and I will revert to him in writing because we will run out of time. I fully share his position on this because we must get the most vaccines possible. By working through the European Commission we have been able to pre-purchase 18.5 million vaccines, which is very positive. However, I am very frustrated with AstraZeneca and particularly frustrated with the fact that it has reneged on some of its commitments in delivery to the European Commission while apparently-----

I thank the Deputy for the various questions. On the recruitment of vaccinators, absolutely I will look into it. A lot of progress has been made. In excess of 10,000 vaccinators have been recruited and this is a lot of people. Rest assured, if there is duplication and too much complexity, I will take it up with the HSE immediately because this process has to be as easy and seamless as possible while, obviously, being safe and secure. I did undertake to have daily briefings and they should be happening. I will speak…

I will take it up with the team straight away because the Deputy should be getting the briefings. I directed that there should be daily Oireachtas briefings and the Deputy should be getting them. There is daily information on vaccines. I know the Deputy is speaking about supply and doses administered. What we have so far online on the data hub and on the tracker app is that the numbers of first and second doses are updated every day.

I appreciate the Deputy is also looking for information on deliveries. It is something I will certainly take up. What is most important for the Irish people is knowing just how many are being taken. I take the Deputy's point and we have discussed it here previously. I apologise if I run out of time in answering the Deputy's questions, and if I do, I will revert to her. With regard to the end of March, can we be clear that my target and our target is to get the vaccines out as soon as they come in? This target is be…

Right now, what we can say is we expect in excess of 1.1 million vaccines to be delivered.

May I add a quick caveat?

I will revert to the Deputy.

I thank the Deputy. Certainly NIAC undertook a rigorous assessment but no one has a monopoly on wisdom on these issues. If the Deputy would like to send me the technical information he has, I will, of course, make sure it is reviewed by the public health team and NIAC. If there are omissions, we should not be afraid of them and we should correct them if it turns out to be the case.

I thank the Deputy for his questions. I have set up a helpline, if we want to call it that, for Members of the Oireachtas and the Deputy should have those details. If there are individual issues on an ongoing or daily basis, I ask the Deputy to use this service. The feedback we have got on it is very good and we want it to be as transparent and open as possible. With regard to the NIAC review, NIAC keeps these under review on a rolling basis, so as new evidence emerges here in Ireland or internationally, it is link…

How much time have I to respond?

Thank you. The first question is an excellent one, namely, when can we tell everybody, broadly speaking, when they should be in line to receive the vaccinations. There are two pieces to this. First, there is a piece of work which we are finalising at the moment, which is about the cohorts and what the cohorts will be after the cohorts that have been agreed to date. Once we have that, we will be in a position to give an indicative timeline but with caveats, as always, given these timelines can change when the suppli…

It is in excess of 10,000 and it may now be in excess of 11,000. I will get the Deputy an exact number.

I thank the Deputy. There is a really interesting discussion that we are beginning to have around vaccine certificates or, as the Deputy said, not necessarily just that but it could also be negative PCR tests. We have seen very interesting pilots in Israel, for example, with open-air concerts available to people who can authenticate that they have been vaccinated. I know the Deputy will be well aware the EU is looking at so-called green certs, although, interestingly, the WHO, as of now, is not in favour of that be…

I thank the Deputy for her questions and assure her that there are very strict protocols in place regarding spare vaccines such that the clinicians overbook to guard against exactly what the Deputy raised. We must use every single vaccine dose. The GPs, hospital teams or ambulance teams move down through the priority list. If GPs are vaccinating their 75 to 79 year old patients this week, for example, they might call in some patients in the 70 to 74 age group who may or may not end up being vaccinated on the day. T…

Our priority is to maximise the availability of safe and effective vaccines for people in Ireland. I am sure the Deputy will agree that we should continue to look to the EMA as the regulator. The vaccines we use here must be deemed safe and effective, to the very highest standards, by the European regulator, as is the case with four vaccines. I can confirm that exactly the same approval process is now being gone through with the Sputnik vaccine. Of course, we are open to talking to everybody. Our only objective is …

What we are seeing at the moment is, without a doubt, the most successful global collaboration between governments, pharmaceutical producers, science and medicine that the world has ever seen. For the Deputy to suggest that this is a failure is, quite frankly, preposterous. There is a very important discussion to be had, and policies to be developed, on global justice fairness and Ireland needs to play a leading role in that. I make no apologies for prioritising people living in Ireland but as we do that, we must a…

I thank Deputy Bruton for his questions. I share his view that as the vaccines take effect, the risk profile is fundamentally changing. As the risk profile changes, our analysis and evaluation of what is possible must change too. In fact, I am in the middle of a very detailed conversation with the modelling group, led by Professor Nolan, on exactly this issue. We know, for example, that 88% of Covid fatalities in Ireland to date have been among those aged 70 and over, rising to 93% for those aged 65 and over. There…