Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Government is actively involved in this question and is showing leadership on it through involvement with the WHO and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. We are providing money and, down the line, we may even provide spare vaccines to developing countries to help them with their vaccine programmes. We know how infectious diseases work. Covid will always be present somewhere in the world. It is endemic at this stage. Nobody will be safe until everyone is safe. That means that vaccine programmes like those that were used to fight polio, smallpox and other infectious diseases are needed across the world. That is the role we are taking through the UN, the WHO and the EU.

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