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

Mr. O'Connor is the one who was saying that the problem is the capacity of these countries to absorb, distribute and administer the doses that they got, talking about the destruction of significant quantities of doses of expired vaccines, without mentioning the fact that these are end-of-line vaccines and they are getting them because they are nearing their expiry date. It is crumbs from the table from the pharmaceutical companies and the developed world. All this is to distract from the point that they are unwilling to give up the intellectual property rights to allow production in order to continue to make as much profit as Mr. O'Connor's companies can.

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