Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I was responding to the Deputy’s statement, which he will appreciate we should all be able to do. As he quite rightly said, the figure of 700,000 was an effort to provide in an indicative target for the Oireachtas and it was, as he rightly referenced, heavily caveated and remains so. As the Deputy will recall from our interactions last week, I said that if we get the supply that has been tentatively agreed with the pharmaceutical companies, including AstraZeneca - remember both last week when we were discussing this and indeed right now, this company has still not even been authorised - the target is 700,000. The talk of the first, second and third quarter up to September is all heavily caveated around being conditional on supply. As the Deputy quite rightly pointed out, there are issues with AstraZeneca which I referred to in my speech-----

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