The European Medicines Agency is due to decide today whether to approve another Covid-19 vaccine.
It will meet to consider if the AstraZeneca vaccine can be used in the EU - allowing the rollout to start in Ireland in the coming weeks.
But the company's in an ongoing row with the EU over a 60 per cent shortfall in the delivery of doses.
Germany's vaccine committee says it shouldn't be used on over 65s.
Euronews Political Editor Darren McCaffrey joined Shane Beatty on Breakfast Briefing: