Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 3 February 2022
267. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the Covid-19 vaccination related activities Irish Aid is currently engaged in; and the countries in which this work is taking place in tabular form. [5556/22]
View answerSince the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ireland, through the Irish Aid programme, has allocated over €100 million per annum in financing to global public health, with a similar volume of support is anticipated for 2022. This investment includes COVID-19 specific response measures, as well as support for strengthening health systems so that they can roll out vaccine campaigns, ensure cold chains and other forms of pandemic preparedness more generally.
Irish Aid support for COVID-19 vaccination enables vaccine supply and in-country delivery. Ireland has committed to share up to 5 million vaccine doses, with over 1.5 million delivered to date, predominantly through the COVAX mechanism. Complementing these donations in kind, Irish Aid has so far allocated €13.5 million to COVAX to enable the purchase of additional vaccines for low income countries. This funding, as well as core support to other global health partners, also finances transport and logistics, cold chain equipment, staff training and communications, and mobilising support for vaccination campaigns.
Full details of the level of financing, the types of activities, the partners and the countries benefitting are included in tabular form below. Irish Aid continues to work closely with the Department of Health in the delivery of doses shared by Ireland, engaging in recipient countries through our Embassies, and financing the transportation costs.
|
Type |
Country |
Short description |
Partner(s) |
SpendFigures indicative* |
|
Dose Donations |
Uganda |
Donation of 335,5000 Astra Zeneca doses from HSE stocks, along with consumables, and transport |
Ministry of Health Uganda |
€2,000,000 |
|
Dose Donations |
Indonesia |
Donation of 403,200 doses from Irish supply chain |
COVAX, Indonesia Ministry of Health and UNICEF |
€2,400,000 |
|
Dose Donations |
Ghana |
Donation of 276,000 doses from Irish supply chain |
COVAX, Ghana Ministry of Health and UNICEF |
€1,650,000 |
|
Dose Donations |
Nigeria |
Donation of 496,800 doses from Irish supply chain |
COVAX, Nigeria Ministry of Health and UNICEF |
€2,980,000 |
|
Dose Donations |
Various (low and lower middle income) |
Pending dose donations to Burkina Faso, Egypt, Algeria and elsewhere as part of Ireland’s commitment to donate up to 5 million doses |
Up to €21,000,000 |
|
|
Dose Procurement |
Various (low and lower middle income) |
€8 million to facilitate dose procurement by low income countries; |
COVAX and various recipient governments |
€8,000,000 |
|
Transport and consumables for vaccines |
Various (low and lower middle income) |
€2 million to cover ancillary costs (transport, packaging, insurance etc) for donated by Ireland Ireland’s doses |
COVAX and various recipient governments |
€2,000,000 |
|
Transport and consumables for vaccines |
Lebanon |
Donation of 16,400 reconstitution syringes/ reconstitution needles from HSE stocks |
EU Civil protection mechanism, Lebanon Ministry of Health |
€3,000 |
|
In country delivery systems |
Various (low and lower middle income) |
In-country support costs (cold chain equipment, training, planning and policy support) |
COVAX |
€3,500,000 |
|
In country delivery systems |
Various (low income countries) |
In-country health system strengthening |
WHO |
€2,300,000 |
|
In country delivery systems |
Various, low income |
Health system strengthening for vaccination delivery |
Gavi, the Global Vaccine Alliance |
€3,000,000 |
|
In country delivery systems |
Various, low income |
Building resilient and sustainable health systems |
Global Fund, GFATM |
€17,500,000 |
|
In country delivery systems |
Ethiopia |
Building resilient and sustainable health systems |
MoH, UNICEF & UNDP |
€5,000,000 |
|
In country delivery systems |
Malawi |
Support to health ministry’s digital unit. The unit does, inter alia, issuing of digital COVID certificates. |
Ministry of Health & UNICEF |
€9,596 |
|
In country delivery systems |
Malawi |
Building capacity of health workers in critical care.Large scale community vaccination campaigns.Surveillance, cold chain storage. Provision of PPE for health workers |
UNICEF & UNDP |
€2,000,000 |
|
In country delivery systems |
Mozambique |
Focused support on Primary Health including Vaccine campaign via Prosaude pooled fund |
Ministry of Health |
€8,000,000 |
|
In country delivery systems |
Sierra Leone |
Knowledge, Attitude, & Practices survey on COVID19 community acceptance of vaccination. |
FOCUS1000 |
€28,578 |
|
In country delivery systems |
Tanzania |
Demand generation for COVID-19 vaccines with a focus on the elderly and women |
UNICEF |
€450,000 |
|
In country delivery systems |
Tanzania |
Support to Ministry of Health in tackling vaccine hesitancy, data management, and surveillance |
WHO |
€250,000 |
|
In country delivery systems |
Tanzania |
Temporary vaccination stations for traders and truck drivers at border points. |
Trade Mark East Africa |
€350,000 |
|
In country delivery systems |
Tanzania |
System strengthening for primary health care |
MoH |
€5,000,000 |
|
In country delivery systems |
Uganda |
Capacity building for surveillance, risk communication, mass vaccination campaigns information management and case management |
WHO |
€2,400,000 |
|
In country delivery systems |
Uganda |
Knowledge attitude & practice surveys on vaccination uptake; design and dissemination of vaccine messages |
UNICEF |
€72,000 |
|
Sub-Total* |
(excluding potential additional doses) |
€68,893,147 |
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|
Total* |
(including potential additional doses) |
€89,893,147 |
* Figures are indicative. In in some cases invoices are pending; in others they are a pro-rata based calculation; for dose donations, the value indicated is based on working figure being proposed by OECD, currently equivalent to €6/dose.
