Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 October 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and 2014 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38: Health
Chapter 13: Irish Blood Transfusion Service Pension Funding

10:00 am

Mr. Jim Breslin:

If there is a vaccine taken, and normally they would be delivered by the general practitioner, the patient would return to the general practitioner and explain that they consider that they have had an adverse reaction. The general practitioner would then report on that adverse reaction. The pharmaceutical companies are required to follow up on adverse reactions and the Health Products Regulatory Authority monitors all adverse reactions. Adverse reactions could be something relatively minor such as swelling on the arm when one gets an injection to something more serious, and the regulatory authorities work across Europe to share information on adverse reactions. One isolated event would not be a pattern. One would look to see a pattern established that showed some causality between what happened to somebody and the actual vaccine. I have no information on adverse reactions regarding other vaccines. If there were-----

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