The Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD has welcomed the preliminary consensus on the World Health Organisation’s Pandemic Agreement, after three years of intensive negotiations. The agreement outlines a framework for improving global collaboration and strengthening capacities for pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response. 

Interim Chief Medical Officer Prof. Mary Horgan said; “This agreement represents very positive progress in strengthening global pandemic prevention and preparedness and ensures that the world will be equitably united to respond swiftly to any future pandemics”.