Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Devlin for his kind words. With regard to when people are deemed to be fully vaccinated, we will redouble our efforts on that. It is important the message gets out that, for example, people who are being vaccinated with AstraZeneca do not need to wait the 12 or 16 weeks and then plus two after their second dose, rather a number of weeks after the first dose and it is different for the different vaccines. We will redouble our efforts to make sure people know that.

With regard to exemptions from hotel quarantine for people who are returning to Ireland because they have left for medical treatment abroad, the Deputy and I have discussed this and individual cases. We are dealing with a number of individual cases to make sure people are met appropriately, dealt with compassionately and get what they need. However, we need to go further than that. We are putting an exemption in place, which I hope to sign soon and share the details of. It will cover people who need to travel abroad for urgent, time-sensitive, material medical treatment abroad and provide them with an exemption.

In terms of Janssen, the latest I have, which is subject to change almost daily, is that during the week of 10 May, approximately 75,000 doses of the Janssen vaccine will arrive here.

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