However, Ireland is lagging the UK on vaccine rollout. In a tweet on Wednesday, Mr Brophy said: “And Ireland’s rollout of Covid-19 vaccines is currently the fastest in Europe, notwithstanding supply issues. Ireland & Denmark have administered doses to 4.1pc of their populations, the highest uptake of the 25 countries tracked by the European Centre for Disease Control.” When challenged on the social media platform, Mr Brophy said he was referring the European Union and not the continent of Europe. “Europe connoting the EU,” he clarified in a subsequent tweet. Investors in Europe and around the world are monitoring the progress of countries in administering vaccines. Countries that succeed in getting their vaccine programme right are expected to bounce back faster economically than those who do not.