Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On 17 June last, the rich states, including the EU, killed a vaccine waiver despite the fact that President von der Leyen of the European Commission said that vaccines will be our common good. She said that two years ago. The EU Council president last year said that immunisation is a global public good. The reality is that only 18% of the poor countries have received the first vaccine compared with 80% of the affluent countries. What are we in Ireland going to do to play our part, irrespective of what the EU has done, to ensure that vaccines are available to the poorest and most deprived in our world?

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