Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
Ceist:92 Mrs. Geoghegan-Quinn asked the Minister for Health the plans, if any, he has to include the new acellular pertussis vaccine into the childhood vaccination scheme in view of the findings of the National Immunisation Committee that acellular pertussis vaccines have shown absolute efficacy and are also associated with fewer and milder adverse reactions; and his views on whether its use would help overcome historical controversial difficulties with the immunisation programmes. [13295/96]