Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

I did not say the cost would be €600 this morning. I was responding to what Dr. Flannelly had said in an earlier part of the interview with Cathal MacCoille in which he expressed outrage that the cost of the vaccination to parents would be €600. Of course I accept the HIQA costs. The Health Service Executive recently made a submission to me that the cost would be of the order of €16 million. I never accepted that a computer system was needed. That is why I wanted the Health Service Executive to start the programme next year and not to wait for a further year for a computer system——

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