Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute

Photo of Rose Conway-WalshRose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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I want to ask about the affordability of the HPV vaccine, particularly where GPs prescribe it and the patient cannot afford to pay the price of €600. I have raised this issue several times. How important is it, when a clinician recommends that somebody needs to have, and should have, the HPV vaccine, that we make the vaccine affordable?

On the previous occasion we met we talked about the architecture that was needed to bring all of this research together. What does the institute need from us?