In accordance with example embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and apparatus to identify, by a user equipment of a communication network, downlink control information (DCI) indicating that at least one hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) codebook scheduled earlier for transmission needs to be re-transmitted in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) occasion indicated by the DCI and identifying which at least one HARQ-ACK codebook scheduled earlier for transmission needs to be re-transmitted in the PUCCH occasion. And based on the DCI, prepare the PUCCH for re-transmitting the identified at least one HARQ-ACK codebook in the PUCCH occasion. Further, to determine and transmit, by a network equipment of a communication network, the DCI to the user equipment of the communication network and to receive the PUCCH for re-transmitting the at least one HARQ-ACK codebook in the PUCCH occasion from the user equipment.