Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

It is clear from listening to the Minister that he prefers vaccination aspirations to targets, because people can be strung along with aspirations that will not be met and because that allows him to try to avoid the fact that if we continue the living with Covid strategy, there will be more lockdowns before we achieve full vaccination. Earlier this week the Minister, unbelievably, claimed that one of the reasons we could not pursue a zero Covid strategy was because we did not know for sure that another Covid variant would not arrive that would make the vaccine ineffective. What on earth did he mean by that claim?

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