Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

At no stage would I seek to question the bona fides of any Senator here. Senator Higgins is making it look like I am wishing that this is what is going to happen, crossing my fingers and hoping. The clear reading of these provisions is that it includes all elements of vaccination, including vaccinations and vaccination trials. I accept that there is a difference between those things. A vaccination may have been a legitimate and existing vaccine at the time while a vaccination trial is something we would have deep concerns about. There are also medicine trial, where the medicine may not have been administered through an injection but orally or something like that. I cannot read this section in the way the Senator has suggested it could be interpreted to rule those things out. It would play havoc with the plain English reading of the Bill. I am fully convinced that all these things are covered.