Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is very encouraging because the political system needs to sell the message that the sequencing has been done in an appropriate way and we need to defend it.

When the officials from the HSE appeared in front of the committee before Christmas, they expressed confidence that the ICT system would be up and running prior to the vaccination process beginning. Clearly, that did not happen. Were deadlines in respect of the ICT system missed? Will further deadlines be missed or is the HSE confident that the ICT system will be robust and on time and will not compromise the roll-out of the programme in any way?