Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 July 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018

9:00 am

Mr. Ciarán Breen:

We obviously would contribute to that by reference to what we see and find. We would work with the Department and say these are the things that happened. The World Health Organization, WHO, called the pandemic on swine flu. There was an urgent search for a vaccine and the only two providers were Baxter with Celvapan and GlaxoSmithKline with Pandemrix. The issue for Ireland at the time, as I recall and as I have seen in the litigation, was how would we get our hands on sufficient quantities of a vaccine so that we would not have a pandemic in Ireland, and particularly for the more vulnerable categories of persons one would want to vaccinate.

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