HSE encourages parents to check sources of information after bishop's HPV-vaccine comments

HSE officials have been defending the rolling out of the HPV vaccination, after comments made by a bishop this week in which he claimed it could make young girls engage in more risky sexual behaviour.

Bishop of Waterford and Lismore Phonsie Cullinan said giving the injection to 12-year-old girls to guard against the human papilloma virus could lead to promiscuity.