Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The new guidance and advice from NIAC allows us to do two things. It allows us to speed up delivery of a second dose for people waiting for one, particularly those who had the AstraZeneca vaccine. That will be done in a matter of two to three weeks at the most. For younger people, that is, those under 40 who have not been vaccinated yet, it will speed that up as well. We are just working out the logistics and implications of that. One thing at which we are looking is making the Janssen vaccine available through pharmacies to younger people. It is available to the over-50s now. We are also looking at speeding up the online registration process because we now have a bigger number of vaccine to offer people in their 30s and, subsequently, those in their 20s. However, what I cannot do at the moment is give exact dates because we do not yet have exact volumes.

We need to talk to the pharmacists and the HSE needs to talk to its staff.

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