MacSharry calls on Health Minister to do side-deal for more Covid vaccines

A South Donegal TD has called on the Health Minister to do a side-deal to get greater quantities of the COVID vaccine.
It’s after Germany broke out of the EU’s combined purchase effort to get more doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
Ireland is getting 1.1 per cent of an agreed group order from the European Commission.
Deputy Marc MacSharry says we should break out of that: