Mr. Pat O'Mahony:

I will deal with a few issues and hand over to my colleagues. On the issue of the leaflet, we had a series of leaflets which are widely available and are on our website. The leaflet to which I referred is about generic medicines. It explains to the public the concept of generic medicines and our judgment that they are safe. There is also a leaflet on the dangers of buying medicines online which can be read on our website. Drawing together some of the comments raised, it might be useful to state that three years ago we did some research on consumer attitudes and repeated the exercise this year. The research shows that in the past 12 months, approximately 2% of the population have bought medicines online. In that sense 98% have not done so, therefore, it is not a major issue. However, tens of thousands of people are purchasing medicines illegally online.