Ms Anne Marie Seymour:

It is kind of one of the suite of measures that I mentioned the European Commission came out and spoke on last week. The solidarity mechanism allows member states to support one another such that if there were a specific issue in Ireland, we might support France or vice versa. Unfortunately, we do not have a full single market for medicines in the same way we have one for other products. The goal of the European Commission is to have a single market for medicines. The voluntary solidarity mechanism is sort of an interim piece whereby countries can support one another in times of shortages of their medicine supplies. It could be the case that a medicine is not packaged for a certain country. The packaging could be in a different language. In exceptional circumstances it could be used.