Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chair. I the witnesses for coming in and for their presentation. I echo points made earlier by the first speaker in relation to us being slow to gear up to meet the need in this area. The first case here was identified in May. A public health emergency was declared in July. There was not a lot happening after July, publicly anyway, whatever about what was going on behind the scenes. However, I welcome the information in the opening statement about people being able to self-identify as being at risk, the opening up of facilities and the apparent gearing up that is happening. All of this is determined by availability of vaccines. I was somewhat confused by Dr. Browne's comments regarding the possibility of getting three, four our five doses from a vial. Why is there a variable in this regard?