Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Select Committee on Health
Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary)
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I will start with subhead J1, regarding the vaccine and procurement at a European Union level. Page 5 of the briefing document refers to 15.6 million doses of vaccines that we could potentially procure. That is across a range of different pharmaceutical companies and types of vaccines. It states that the estimated cost would be €117.6 million. Is that €117.6 million for 15.6 million doses? We may not draw down 15.6 million doses because we may not need that many. It depends on what vaccine comes first. Does the figure of €117.6 million relate to those 15.6 million doses of vaccine?
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