John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To go back to the issue of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, it is good news that it is available. I am sure other members will be asking the witnesses to flesh out the details in that regard, so I will leave that to them. We are due to get 600,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is essentially equivalent to 1.2 million doses of AstraZeneca or another two-jab vaccine. We know the USA has paused administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and that the Australian Government stated on Tuesday that it would not purchase it. What is the reaction of the witnesses to those developments?