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Labour leader in call for vaccine minister

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Labour leader Alan Kelly has called for a permanent minister and task force to make decisions quickly on the rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine in Ireland.

He said that due to a range of issues from logistics, procurement, storage and IT, "somebody needs to be sitting at the Cabinet table permanently", adding, there cannot be "red tape or bureaucracy" delaying matters.

Mr Kelly said that decisions around vaccines will save lives, businesses, jobs and will change society and "we have to make sure we maximise this and get it right".

Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Claire Byrne, he said UK has a "Covid minister" as have France, Denmark and Finland. A rollout of any vaccine in Ireland will follow approval from the European Medicines Agency, which

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