Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That sounds low compared with what Dr. Lambert said, which was that it was somewhere between $25 billion and $75 billion in the US. Applying a crude population ratio, the figure here would be between €375 million and €1.1 billion per year. I know that is a crude ratio. The UK figure sounds very low but I take Ms Lawless's point.

I will finish with a question for the Chairman. Senator Colm Burke quoted earlier from a document from the Infectious Diseases Society of Ireland that Dr. Lambert said he had not seen. He seemed to allude to the fact that this was a paper done for the committee. Did the committee secretariat seek a document from the Infectious Diseases Society of Ireland?