Mr. Fergal Black:

We have made approaches to the national immunisation committee. We regard people in custody as members of society so the fewer than 4,000 people in custody should be treated in an identical fashion to persons outside. People over the age of 65 in prison should receive the vaccination at the same time as those outside.. We have measures in place to provide the vaccination. To go back to the first point, we recently completed a competition to recruit prison doctors and we are very hopeful, as we have a panel formed, that we will see a transformative effect in leadership in primary care at prison level from next year.