Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

What we are seeing at the moment is, without a doubt, the most successful global collaboration between governments, pharmaceutical producers, science and medicine that the world has ever seen. For the Deputy to suggest that this is a failure is, quite frankly, preposterous. There is a very important discussion to be had, and policies to be developed, on global justice fairness and Ireland needs to play a leading role in that. I make no apologies for prioritising people living in Ireland but as we do that, we must also play our part globally. I wholeheartedly disagree with the suggestion that what has happened, whereby we now have four highly effective authorised vaccines for Ireland, with more coming, is a failure.

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