Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 September 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on Covid-19: Discussion

Professor Karina Butler:

We will be guided by both the Health Products Regulatory Authority, HPRA, and the EMA review in terms of the vaccines that are considered appropriate within the area. At the moment, the vaccines that are recognised as regards ensuring that someone is fully vaccinated are those that are licensed by the EMA, the Food and Drug Administration, FDA, in the US and the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, MHRA. That is where we will get our guidance. There are other vaccines under rolling review in the EMA including, for example, the Sputnik vaccine and we will be guided and take advice from there.