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
Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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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?