Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank NPHET for coming before the committee this morning. I also thank the witnesses for all the work both NPHET and NIAC have done over the past 18 months and continue to do. We are in a pretty good place relative to where we were at the start of this year and in springtime. I have a number of questions. My first question, for Professor Butler, is about vaccines that are outside the big three that the EMA has approved, such as the likes of Sinopharm, which a lot of people who lived in Asia and the Middle East have been vaccinated with. Is there any word coming from the European Medicines Agency, or from NIAC here in Ireland, on accepting the bona fides of Sinopharm and determining that those who have been vaccinated in Dubai, Qatar and other places, who have now come back to Ireland, are vaccinated and that that vaccine is deemed to be safe, with the same bona fides as Pfizer, Janssen etc., and would qualify for digital Covid certification?