Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)

I am alarmed and surprised that it could take up to eight months to vaccinate the entire population. That is a long time during a pandemic. Is there no way to do it quicker? What about replacing staff? If the same person is taken from his or her job for that length of time, assuming the HSE clinics will be consistently open, it will have an impact. In my area there was a suggestion that they would rotate staff and take people from different areas at different times so no area would be short-staffed for a long time.

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