David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I appreciate that. Different types of vaccines will have different storage requirements and could involve different costs but we have to plan for that. The expert group will be looking at all of those things. That figure of €117 million, and whatever storage, distribution or administration costs there will be, is still quite small in the context of the overall cost of Covid. Covid has cost us tens of billions of euro economically and that is leaving aside the social costs, including the people who have lost their lives, and so on. Is it the Minister's plan, regardless of which Covid vaccine comes first, that it would be rolled out for free?