Nearly 1,400 babies under the age of one were hospitalised with the virus last year.
It's hoped the roll out of an RSV vaccine could help reduce the number of babies hospitalised with the infection.
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly is bringing proposals to Cabinet today which would see 28-thousand babies, born between September this year and February 2025, offered the jab.
Nearly 1,400 babies under the age of one were hospitalised with the virus last year - the vast majority of whom were under six months.
Dr. Brendan O’Shea, Kildare GP and Adjuvant Professor in Public Health and Primary Care at Trinity College Dublin, says a roll-out of the vaccine would help reduce the spread of RSV this winter.

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