Covid booster jabs will be offered to children aged between 12 and 15.
The Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, has accepted the new recommendations made by the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) to Dr Tony Holohan.
The advice says that: "A booster dose of the mRNA vaccine Comirnaty, the vaccine manufactured by Pfizer/BioNTech, should be given at an interval of six months or longer since completion of the primary vaccine series.
