Mr. Damien McCallion:

Adult vaccination applies to more than just the elderly. It also includes healthcare workers and other priority groups to which Ms McArdle referred. There are still constraints as to what will be available in the market. Work has been going on for some months and this is not something that kicks in around this time of the year; it starts almost as early as the end of the previous winter. The vaccine is only developed in the southern hemisphere during the winter. We have approximately 1.4 million doses of the vaccine for adults and 500,000 to 600,000 for children. That is the total number of vaccinations available and deals with the priority groups. As I said, it works on the basis of a 90% uptake in the adult population to whom it is made available.