Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is satisfying to raise an issue that the Cabinet has addressed at least in part today, with the publication of who is going to get the Covid vaccine and the logic and the sequence of how that is going to happen. People are going to be understandably impatient and they are going to want as much information as possible. How and when they are going to get it will be crucial if we want to keep people with us as we roll out this vaccine.

It is simply extraordinary what science has managed to achieve in discovering the new RNA vaccine technology and that it has been able to develop this within the period since the beginning of this year. While it is absolutely unprecedented in terms of scientific achievement, we now have an equal challenge in terms of the logistics of the delivery of the vaccine. It is a logistical challenge like none of us has ever seen before, a logistical challenge that is only comparable to the effort around the Second World War. The volume, the scale and the urgency of the roll-out of this vaccine is unprecedented. I urge the Government to be as transparent as possible at the earliest stage in regard to how people are going to get it.

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