Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that. This is an important week, with an big decision to be taken, probably on Friday, in respect of allowing those people who have been vaccinated to enter the airports and disperse around the country. It is important that we nail down which vaccines are acceptable and which are not. Regardless of which vaccine one is talking about, they all have high efficacy rates. They may not all have an efficacy rate of 98% or 99% but they certainly provide a high degree of protection. That needs to be factored in.

My final question is also for Dr. Henry. We heard the Tánaiste say last week, in the vacuum that existed while the EMA was undertaking a number of reviews, that those who refused vaccines would end up at the back of the queue. Operationally, has that been the case? Have people who telephoned clinics and stated they were not sure if a particular vaccine was right for them and that they would wait to hear what the scientific experts had to say ended up being at the back of the queue? Will those people have to wait a number of months to be vaccinated? All things being equal and everything moving at the current momentum, when will the last eligible adult in Ireland be vaccinated?

When does Dr. Henry envisage the last vial will be taken from a shelf and jabbed into someone's arm? This is a very important vaccine. There must be, provisionally, an endpoint to this. Does he know what it is, has the HSE planned for it and could he guesstimate when it might be?