Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The regional college is in the west of the city. I do not mean to be facetious. There is good capacity in the city for vaccination. That is important.

Deputy Pringle made a very important point, which I want to acknowledge, about the need to ensure we can provide for people in their homes who cannot leave their homes because of conditions or illness. Measures are being organised through GPs to do that. I take the Deputy's point on that.

On Deputy Gould's point, the large majority of vaccinations will take place through GP surgeries and, ultimately, pharmacies. The vaccination centres are for where certain GPs have to get together because their surgeries would not be suitable, and they are for the mass vaccination that will take place in April, May and June. We must see it all as part of one framework for the administration of vaccines.

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