Martin Daly (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail)

Would it be possible for the Minister for Health and her Department and the Government to reconsider their stance on the shingles vaccine given recent studies that show the administration of shingles vaccine in the elderly population has the added benefit of the reduction of the onset of dementia by about 20%? It is a significant additional piece of data published in Nature magazine and based on a study of the introduction of the vaccine in Wales. The shingles vaccine is now offered to all people aged over 60 in the UK, as well as in a number of other jurisdictions. This bit of data improves the cost-benefit analysis of the introduction of a shingles vaccine programme for elderly people.

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