Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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3243. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an updated supply forecast for Covid-19 vaccines expected to be delivered into Ireland over the next six months. [40974/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Ireland's COVID-19 vaccination programme strategy is to distribute all available vaccines as quickly as operationally possible, prioritising those who are most vulnerable. Ireland received approximately 5.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine in the first six months of 2021.

As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is ongoing, and the HSE is working hard to restore its IT capacity and resume normal services. Members of the Oireachtas will be advised as soon as the HSE is again in a position to provide responses to PQs and are encouraged to resubmit their Parliamentary Questions at that point.