Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 December 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Roll-out of Covid-19 Vaccination: Discussion

Professor Brian MacCraith:

I will try to be brief. We expect a very small amount before the end of this calendar year that will be in small multiples of the numbers I gave the Deputy if we take that figure of 4,875 doses per shipper and we expect a small number of shippers. It may be one or two - we do not know exactly. That has not been confirmed. We expect to be dealing with hundreds of thousands of those in quarterly allocations but I need to be very careful as these have not been confirmed. Perhaps colleagues in the Department of Health can comment on that more generally in terms of signing off on the advanced purchase agreements at national level but-----

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