Martin Conway (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is great. The witnesses might provide a progress note to the committee, perhaps in three or four weeks, as to how the impact is being addressed.

Another issue is the HPV vaccine, specifically the catch-up programme. I understand that the Minister asked the National Immunisation Advisory Committee, NIAC, for a recommendation and that that recommendation has now been sent from NIAC to him in the past two or three weeks. In reply to me in the Seanad last September, the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, committed to abolishing the catch-up fees for people who did not take the HPV vaccine originally but who then decided a year or two down the road to do so. How is that catch-up programme going? Have the witnesses had any communication from the Minister to the effect that the fees should be waived?

If so, when would Dr. Henry expect that to happen?