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 David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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The total cost of all those vaccines will be €117 million. It is unlikely that we will have to purchase all of them. Will we have to pay for them anyway because they are advance purchases? Are we locked in to those purchases and that cost of €117 million? If we did not draw down some of them would it be a lesser amount?