A fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccine is expected to be approved for use in Ireland, according to Tánaiste Leo Varadkar
Mr Varadkar said he thinks that the vaccine programme would need to start around the middle of the year, before the winter season.
He added that an inquiry into the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic in Ireland will be up and running this year,"if not in the next couple of months".An inquiry would not be about"getting people", he said, and that Government did not want an adversarial inquiry"where people are hauled in and hauled over the coals".
"It's important that we work out and establish what we did right and what we could have done better and how we could be better prepared for another pandemic if it happens in our life time, which unfortunately it might."
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