Mr. Paul Reid:

The committed supply that we have, if we include quarter 1, would bring us from between 1.1 million to 1.2 million deliveries to 3.8 million deliveries. We see a stronger delivery in quarter 2. This an EU-wide and worldwide issue.

I will make a few brief comments on the public's perspective. We totally understand the frustration of the public. I want to provide some reassurance. As we get supply, we are administering it in a very efficient manner. On average, 95% of the supply is administered within a week and sometimes it is administered within three days. For example, last Friday week we were due an AstraZeneca supply of 64,000 vaccines. We are operating at such an efficient level at the moment - I do not say this as self praise for the HSE - that we are administering vaccines very quickly. What happened on that Friday meant that on Saturday and Sunday we did not have the projected volume to deliver over the weekend. My point is that impacted us immediately. We are operating at a higher level than most EU countries in terms of administration.