Ms Phil Ní Sheaghdha:

In our submission, we make the point that the vaccine roll-out was haphazard and did not follow the highest incidence rates of Covid-19 in the community. I have the statistics. In week 53, for example, there were 506 cases per 100,000 of the population in Cavan. In Clare, there were 397.2 cases, in Donegal there were 554 cases, in Limerick there were 613 cases, in Louth there were 773 and in Monaghan there were 858 per 100,000, but those counties were not prioritised. That is the point we are making. Where the incidence rate was highest, the vaccine should have been prioritised. We got calls from our members in Louth and Letterkenny. The Senator might recall that the ambulances were backing up at the time in Letterkenny General Hospital. Nurses and doctors were going into the ambulances and they had not been vaccinated. The point was that the roll-out was haphazard. I hope we have got over that and that the sequencing document we produced subsequently, through negotiations with HSE, on 12 January and 19 January, should prevent it from happening. However-----