Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Senator Black has stolen my thunder as I was going to ask about the over-intake of vitamin D.

My first question relates to countries with the same type of profile as Ireland in terms of a lack of fish in the diet and so on. Are there any similar countries doing it better in terms of public health interventions around vitamin D? Is there anywhere we can learn lessons from and possibly replicate?

I wish to develop on the conversation that the witnesses had with Senator Garvey earlier about their engagement with NPHET. Have the witnesses made formal representations to NPHET? Have they presented to it? What has been the level of engagement to date? I take on board the witnesses' argument that clear advice is needed.

What representations have any of the witnesses, or the bodies to which they belong, made to NPHET? How has that engagement gone? I do not mind who answers that one.