Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That would be most helpful. The indicative dates for everyone else in all those groups - October, November or whenever it may be - such as meat plant workers, other healthcare workers, dentists and retail workers, may shift and change based on supply but, again, transparency and communication will help. My worry is that if the Government goes wrong here, resentment will breed and we will end up with some kind of The Hunger Gamesfeeling in the country in respect of the vaccine.

We must avoid that at all costs. Therefore, it would be helpful if the Minister could work on providing indicative dates.

The language used by the Minister was that we will have gone into a buffer on the vaccination by the end of this week. What implications will that have? Are we going to enter a period where we may have a hiatus in the vaccination roll-out or is the Minister confident we will be getting enough vaccines to keep going at the rate planned?

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