Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

A word of caution: I am worried we will run down a road of chasing the virus. The latter is something over which neither we nor the HSE have any control. It is all down to one thing: supply. If the companies do not supply or are not capable of supplying enough vaccines or if there is a safety issue involved, what will we do? Will we superimpose ourselves between the HSE and the general public and set ourselves up as the people to go to in the case of healthcare? If something goes wrong and there is a health issue and an inquiry into it, are we going to take responsibility for that? This is an area we need to be very careful about. It is all very fine to criticise the Minister and so on, and I am sure he is well able to look after himself, but we are not the experts in this area-----