Frances Black (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Thank you. I hope everyone can hear me. I will start by thanking the witnesses for the phenomenal work they have all been doing for the past year and a half. I can only imagine how difficult it must have been at some points in the course of the pandemic. My first question relates to something Senator Hoey mentioned. In their submission the witnesses reference additional or booster doses of Covid-19 vaccines as a way of protecting people against resistant variants, especially those who are severely immunocompromised. How do we reconcile the need for boosters with the limited global supplies of vaccines? Do the witnesses think that without global co-operation we are prolonging this threat?