Question on Meningitis B vaccine

QUESTION NO: 193

DÁIL QUESTION addressed to the Minister for Health (Dr. James Reilly)
by Deputy Thomas Pringle
for WRITTEN ANSWER on 14/11/2013
* To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider asking the National Immunisation Advisory Committee to consider approving the meningitis B vaccine, Bexsero to help protect citizens against this disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Thomas Pringle T.D.
REPLY.
The are currently no plans to introduce Meningococcal group B (Meningitis B) vaccine in Ireland, however should the National Immunisation Advisory Committee advice recommend its inclusion into the primary childhood immunisation programme in Ireland, my Department, in association with the Health Service Executive National Immunisation Office will examine the issue.

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