Dr. Kevin Kelleher:

Can I add to what has been said about the pandemic? My predecessor as director of the HPSE, Dr. O'Flanagan, conducted a study here in Ireland that actually replicated what had happened in Scandinavia and showed that there was an explicit link between the vaccine and those, predominantly children, who got narcolepsy.

We were part of that process, as Dr. Gilvarry has said. Dr. O'Flanagan carried out the study which showed very clearly that there was a link. That has formed part of our process since. However, just to reinforce this, in these other circumstances it has been shown there is no such link. It is not even possible to do such a study in the same way that Dr. O'Flanagan did because we do not have any specifics around it.

There is a group of questions about HPV. It may be better to take those first and then come back to more generic questions raised by Senator Dolan around confidence, mandatory vaccination and things like that, which are more general questions. Dr. Corcoran can begin on some of the issues around the HPV vaccine and perhaps Dr. Brennan can help.