Dr. Kevin Kelleher:

It is not licensed yet. We need to wait for it to be licensed. NIAC needs to consider it, which it is doing to a degree. NIAC would take three to six months to get through some of that because it also needs to seek an external evaluation. NIAC is a classic health committee within Ireland. It comprises a group of people who have totally different day jobs. They meet every month or every other month in their own time in the evenings to consider this work. We are asking people to do this outside their working lives. We are not trying to move away. Everyone present hopes this vaccine turns out to be as good as MenC and we firmly hope we can introduce it like we introduced MenC. However, there are some other issues. As I have said we are also in the throes of other immunisation issues. The staff concerned are dealing with three or four times the number of vaccines compared with five years ago and there are not any more of them.