Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is ongoing contact at the appropriate level, which is task force level, between the State and the pharmaceutical companies. However, let us be very clear. If Ireland went on its own and tried to secure volumes of vaccine, as a tiny country in a highly competitive global market right now, we would not do very well. What we are doing is working as part of the EU. The EU has supplied significant quantities and they are being distributed pro rata. Ireland gets 1.11%. The total amount we have now signed up to is a little in excess of 14 million doses of vaccine.

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