Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 October 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive

2:00 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

To be fair, what happens with vaccines is that they differ by fridge life, shelf life and date life. That is the first thing. The second is that, because the vaccines are Covid-related, we buy them on advice from the Chief Medical Officer and the national immunisation advisory committee. The Deputy will recall the panic there was to get a vaccine-----