Donnelly makes a series of blunders in Dáil session 

Mr Donnelly told the Dáil that 48,000 Pfizer vaccines arrived into the country this week but the HSE says just 24,570 doses of the Pfizer vaccine arrived in the same time period. Picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

Stephen Donnelly appeared to make a series of blunders in a Dáil session today, claiming he could not remember what he said on Tuesday and giving out the wrong figures on vaccines.

RISE TD Paul Murphy asked the minister: "Earlier this week you quite unbelievably claimed one of the reasons we could not pursue a zero-Covid strategy was that we don’t know for sure that another Covid variant wouldn’t arrive that would make the vaccine ineffective. What on earth did you mean by that?"