Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Vaccination Programme: Discussion

9:00 am

Dr. Kevin Kelleher:

Jade Goody. There was massive external pressure on us to introduce the vaccine and then to do the catch-up for the girls who had missed it as a result of it being delayed for a year or so. It was external. Of course, one then gets into these IR things - I was at a meeting until 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. There is no problem now. All the staff are clearly vetted and nobody starts the programme before going through the Garda vetting process. It is incredibly different from how it was in 2010. We have gone through that in quite a major way. It is important to realise that.

I ask Professor Butler to speak about the six-in-one vaccine versus individual injections and how vaccine problems are dealt with. We can then come back to the issue of confidence, etc., and move on the HPV.

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