Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will ask questions back and forth of the Minister, if he will allow me. As of 13 January, 69,700 front-line healthcare workers had received a vaccine, according to the HSE's figures. The Minister stated, however, that as of Sunday next, 24 January, a target of 140,000 will have been reached, split more or less evenly between healthcare workers and people in nursing homes and their staff. If 70,000 - half of 140,000 - are to be vaccinated in the space of two weeks, how will those figures match up? Are we making any progress? Is it the case that those people will get a second jab and that is being counted twice in the figure? The Minister might answer that and allow me to come back in.

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