Dáil debates

Thursday, 27 May 2021

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out: Statements

 

9:35 am

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As the Deputy is aware, the supply forecast moves around. If everything arrives as we want it to for June, we will receive approximately 2.44 million doses. That would be 365,000 AstraZeneca, 1.42 million Pfizer, approximately 176,000 Moderna and approximately 476,000 or 477,000 Janssen vaccine doses.

I gave Deputy Cullinane the figures earlier in terms of best-case and worst-case scenarios for Janssen. Essentially, as of this morning, Janssen believes best-case is approximately half and worst-case is very low. It would be approximately 60,000 out of a contracted 476,000 vaccines.

With regard to AstraZeneca, unfortunately, we do not know yet. It has not been able to give us a line of sight on what exactly it believes is going to come in week by week. I spoke to Professor MacCraith before I came into the Chamber this morning to make sure I had the latest information available. Right now, we cannot give the level of accuracy, or even a range, which we are able to give on Janssen. AstraZeneca has not able to provide it to us. The task force pointed out to me that as we know, unfortunately, the supplies from AstraZeneca have been consistently under. The company has not been able to give detail as to how much it will be under for June. As soon as I have that information I will make it available, however.

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