Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will certainly commit to speaking to the Department, the task force and the HSE about it. We all want maximum transparency and I hope the Deputy would agree that on the supply side, a real effort has been made to make the data available. The challenge is that anything we publish will change. As we in here know, it has changed repeatedly. If we take this week as an example, a figure was given in good faith. The hope was to vaccinate 100,000 people this week. For one reason, and one reason only, it will be lower than that. This is because at the last minute, mid week, AstraZeneca said we will not get what we need. Unfortunately, how this is being portrayed by some is that the HSE has missed its targets whereas, in fact, that is not the case. The HSE's target is to get out what it gets in. The HSE is hitting its target. My concern, and perhaps it is something for us to consider further, is that even if we publish the forecasts at this level of detail they will change regularly. My concern is this could cause an awful lot of concern among the general public and it might erode trust. It could be down to just one company moving around its supplies all the time.

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