John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The documents are inspirational and aspirational. Our guests are talking today about their plans and proposals. The next time we meet, the committee will be interrogating where those plans are at.

I have two final questions. If the vaccine arrives tomorrow morning, it is my understanding that there will be a three-week delay before people receive it. That is my interpretation and it may be wrong. What causes that three-week delay?

There has been a heavy emphasis from the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Government on the hierarchy and population sequencing. I get that. Vulnerable groups, people who have underlying health conditions and age considerations must be prioritised. I am going to ask our guests a straight question and I ask them to try not to be political in their response. I heard the Taoiseach last night say that he will take the vaccine at his appointed place in the line. Do our guests think it would be helpful, rather than exclusively looking at this in a hierarchical way, that sometimes it would be really important symbolically if those who are not included as having underlying health conditions or as being in the vulnerable groups take the vaccine from the point of view of public confidence? Should the Taoiseach and Tánaiste have to wait in line until their time comes or do our guests think it would helpful, from a public confidence point of view, if they were to receive the vaccine initially?