Dr. Orla Keane:

It was the HPRA task force. There are conditions listed in the 2019/6 regulation that have been carried forward from previous regulations. A veterinary medicine has to meet these criteria to be exempt from prescription. This task force reviewed whether the medicines met those criteria. The conclusion of the task force was they did not. One of the issues was around antiparasitic resistance. One of the conditions the medicines need to meet to be exempt from prescription is that there is no risk of development of antimicrobial resistance or antiparasitic resistance even where the product is used incorrectly. There were some other criteria they were deemed not to meet, but that was certainly one of them, and-----