Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I want to start on a very positive note on the vaccine roll-out. The uptake of the vaccine has been very good and logistically it has gone very well also. There will be kinks and vulnerabilities in its implementation. One of the vulnerabilities is the cohort of those aged over 60. A cohort of nearly 450,000 is in that bracket. It seems counter-intuitive that those people have been left vulnerable. For example, I will be fully vaccinated by next week but somebody that is 20 years older than me will possibly not be fully vaccinated for another five weeks. How concerned is the Tánaiste and what will the Government do to try to address the anomaly and the vulnerability relating to that cohort?

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