Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question. It is, indeed, the federal government's responsibility to run the national vaccination program. I've made that point very clearly, whether it be from this dispatch box or any other place which I've been speaking from. We've made that very clear. When we received the final advice—I know the member does follow these things earnestly—from ATAGI last Friday, we made the immediate decision to proceed with the vaccination of 12- to 15-year-olds, and bookings will be available from the 13th of this month. That will follow the expansion of the program to 16- to 29-year-olds from earlier this week. We did that knowing full well that we'd be able to give greater support to that vaccination program for 12- to 15-year-olds because of what we knew was in the works in terms of accessing additional Pfizer supplies, particularly out of Singapore.

Dr Freelander interjecting—

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