Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Huge progress has been made with the vaccine roll-out. Some 3.75 million vaccines have now been administered, almost 60% of adults have at least one vaccine and Ireland has the highest vaccine uptake rate in Europe. However, in the past week I have been flooded with queries from people in their 60s who received just one dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine, people who are concerned, people who are frustrated, people who are feeling left behind. They got their first vaccine early in the roll-out plan because we deemed them to be at higher risk than people in their 40s and 50s, but it is people in their 40s and 50s who are currently getting their second jab. How can we better protect our 60-somethings against Covid and the Delta variant?

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