Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 December 2020

Select Committee on Health

Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Supplementary)

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes it is. I was talking to the public health experts about this today in the context of the statement from the UK yesterday. It is not necessarily the case that whichever vaccine comes on market first will simply be the one that everybody gets. My understanding is that different vaccines may be more suitable for different people or age groups. When we get the validation data from the European Medicines Agency, EMA, which will provisionally sit on 29 December to make a decision on the Pfizer vaccine, at that point or before then the EMA-----

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