Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Gabhaim buíochas leis an Tánaiste for his answers. I ask him in his supplementary reply to address the other point I made to him, which was that in May 2018, when he was Taoiseach, he gave a commitment that no woman would be forced to go to court to seek compensation due to the failures associated with the CervicalCheck scandal. We know that promise has been broken time and time again and it needs to come to an end. No woman should be forced to go to court to seek justice and still not even have an apology from the State or the HSE. I ask the Tánaiste to address this.

The Tánaiste said the vaccine roll-out will be slower for those aged over 70. Will he give an indication of what the timeframe is and when those aged over 70, which is the group that is most at risk, will be vaccinated? The original date was the end of March. What is the new date? Does the Tánaiste have any information on the number of GP surgeries that have the ability to vaccinate using the other two vaccines that have to be stored at lower temperatures of up to -20°C, as he has acknowledged? Will the pharmacists now be involved in the rolling out of the vaccination programme? How will they be able to take part in it?

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