Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Covid-19 Vaccines: Discussion

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

Would Mr. O'Connor accept that something important that is happening here is that a huge amount of public money has gone into developing vaccines for the benefit of humanity as a whole - that is why that investment was made - but that a large part of its benefits has been privatised by the companies Mr. O'Connor represents and is being turned into private profit at the expense of millions of unnecessary deaths?

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