Mr. Paul Reid:

I think the Senator is going back to the very first weekend or week. There was huge angst at that stage over who got what. To explain, two things were happening that week. One was that we had received our first deliveries. From 26 December we were distributing them across hospital groups. Some hospital groups were mobilising, getting ready and getting their vaccinators ready and we had planned the deployment to them in that first week in January. The South/Southwest Hospital Group started with an initial phase on that weekend, for us and with us, and the group vaccinated, in fairness to it, was not just its own healthcare staff but GP communities as well. There was just a very short period where one would have seen that disproportionate number but it was not just the South/Southwest Hospital Group doing its own teams; it was vaccinating some other healthcare workers as well. Then the following week when University Hospital Limerick was up and running, that balanced itself out.