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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Perhaps when we have Mr. McCallion back before the committee in a month's time, he will be in a better position to answer that question. I wish to say to the witnesses from NIAC and the HSE that they have nothing to fear in giving us, as politicians, direct answers. I have noticed that there is a little bit of PR creeping into some of the contributions, perhaps unintentionally and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: I get that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Is that information available on websites?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Daily, perhaps?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: I accept that. As a member of the Oireachtas committee, I am of the view that we are non-partisan here. We are trying to find the truth of the matter between targets set by politicians and realistic targets. It was mentioned previously that it was hoped that 800,000 vaccines would arrive in April. It is now 20 April. How many vaccines have arrived?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Roughly, how many have come in to date, namely, 20 April?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: How many had arrived by 15 April?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Is that 200,000 for each week?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: So, there are roughly 400,000 vaccines left to arrive out of the 800,000 that are expected this month? Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Okay. Go ahead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Yes, to use for the second dose.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Published figures for vaccine deliveries into Ireland show that 1.187 million - almost 1.2 million - doses were received up to the end of March. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: As of Friday, April 16, which was last Friday, 1.18 million doses had been administered into people's arms. That is almost three weeks later. That figure is only about 1,000 more than the figure for the vaccines that was publicised as being received into the country up to the end of March.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: No, I got this information from the app.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Yes, it updates, not daily. It is approximately two or three days behind.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: How many doses have been administered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: The HSE has administered 1.2 million doses up to today, 20 April, but on 31 March 1.187 million doses had been received, which is a tiny bit shy of 1.2 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: I know about the buffer and all the rest. For six weeks the HSE and others have talked about administering 0.25 million doses per week in April. I forgave that for the first and second weeks of April. Then we had the AstraZeneca thing but remember AstraZeneca only accounts for 25%. So, at 31 March we had received a ballpark figure of 1.2 million doses and as of today we have administered...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Moderna is a tiny amount of only 50,000 doses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out: Update (20 Apr 2021)
John Lahart: Targets were set not by the HSE although Paul Reid talked on radio about 0.25 million vaccines per week. As many as 1.2 million vaccines have been administered up to today and we are to get to 4 million vaccines by the end of June. The target is not a big deal to me but it is what missing the targets implies, and they are not the HSE's target necessarily. Right now, 27% of Irish people are...