Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 227: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has considered offering routine immunisation of babies against pneumococcal meningitis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22828/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The inclusion of the pneumococcal vaccine in the Primary Childhood Immunisation Programme is being considered by the National Immunisation Advisory Committee as part of its review of the immunisation guidelines. No decision has yet been reached. My Department and the Health Service Executive will be guided by the expert advice from the NIAC in this regard.