David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have been informed that AstraZeneca has done a great deal of advance manufacturing. While the figure of 600,000 doses in the first quarter is significant, why are they coming monthly? Why not get more? Is it because that is all that have been produced? Are there logistical reasons for getting them monthly? Why not get all 600,000 at once and get them into GP surgeries and pharmacies in order that they are here? People will ask these questions. If the doses have been made and are sitting in locations in England or elsewhere in Europe, we should get them into the State as soon as possible. That was my question. Why not increase the numbers of doses coming in so that we can equip GP surgeries and pharmacies, and so that the mass vaccination centres we want to put in place and the staff to roll that out have the vaccine to roll out as quickly as possible when it is here? Why is it only monthly and why will there be only 600,000 doses?

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