Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On the vaccination and booster programmes, I compliment the staff who organised and delivered the first and second vaccination programmes. I had the first dose in May and the second in July. I queued for the booster dose on Sunday morning. It was a long queue and I spent a few hours there but it shows there is a huge demand for it. I acknowledge the tremendous work of the front-line staff.

There has been talk that there is not a great demand and we may have vaccines to spare. I have two questions on that. First, have any vaccines passed their best-before date? Hopefully, those we cannot use or are surplus are sent to the developing countries that need them. Second, is there a serious plan to ramp it up? I think there is a huge demand for it.