Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 April 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Business of Joint Committee
Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I endorse Deputy Cullinane's proposal in the first instance. Also, since NIAC and, in particular, the HSE are coming in, I am very concerned about the roll-out of the HPV vaccine. We need to get an update on that as well and on whether there is any proposal to have a catch-up programme, given the fact that schools have been closed now for a significant period of the past 12 months. I have dealt with a couple of parents who are trying to get their children the HPV vaccine and they are being told it will cost them something in the region of €500. This catch-up programme was run successfully in 2018 and we need another one, so perhaps the HSE and NIAC could be alerted to the need to come in and to give us an update on that as well. I would appreciate that.
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