Mr. Fergal Goodman:

I have one brief point to make on mail orders. We all are cognisant that online purchase of all sorts of services and products now is becoming a reality. In the Department of Health's national policy and regulatory oversight role, it is an area at which we are looking to scope out and ascertain what, for example, is emerging by way of practice in other countries and whether there are things for which we need to forward plan and about which we must think, while highly cognisant of the issues Mr. Flanagan raises in terms of continuity and accessibility of supply. Nevertheless, it is an area at which we are having an initial look from a policy perspective and is something the Minister has asked us to examine.