Mr. Paul Reid:

Briefly, on the Senator's first question which I did not come back on, there are negotiations, to reassure the Senator in terms of ourselves, through the Department and Government, on an advance purchase arrangement for vaccines. Part of that will be, as Dr. Henry stated, on the distribution for our population, and it will be on a pro ratabasis of the Irish population versus the EU countries. That is part of the advance purchase process. There is a whole-of-government task force being established - the first meeting was this morning - to focus on vaccine procurement, distribution and immunisation programme. It is early stages on that one.

I have not been made aware of the eye-care programme. It sounds like a very valuable programme. I might ask Mr. Woods to make a quick comment.