Taoiseach doesn't tell Dáil whether Ireland will support a vote to invoke the '#TRIPSwaiver' - effectively suspending intellectual property rights on the manufacture of Covid-19 vaccines - at a meeting of the World Trade Organisation this Friday
Taoiseach said the idea would have to be examined "in some detail" - but seems to cast doubt on whether the pharma industry's co-ordinated response to Covid-19 (in contrast to SARS in 2003) would happen again in future if IP rights were suspended or waived - then his time elapsed
He was replying to a series of opposition TDs who wanted Ireland to back a waiver at this Friday's meeting of the WTO Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.
They see it as necessary to help southern hemisphere countries increase vaccine production.
They see it as necessary to help southern hemisphere countries increase vaccine production.
After another batch of questions, the Taoiseach then finds himself again out of time and unable to state Ireland's position.
But he does have time to say: "Too many deputies reduce everything to the slogan, or the soundbite… it's not that simple."
But he does have time to say: "Too many deputies reduce everything to the slogan, or the soundbite… it's not that simple."
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