Mr. Joseph Hughes:

This relates to training being provided so that antibiotics can be administered to somebody who presents at a pharmacy. The excuse from the HSE was that this has to be done in a hospital setting. It is a broad spectrum of antibiotics, oxygen and fluids. It is easily treated, but I think it currently has to be done in a hospital setting. It is almost six years since we lost our son and started our campaign. For those six years, we were the only sepsis awareness campaign in Ireland. Why should it be left to grieving parents? Some days it is a struggle to get out of bed and face the world. We do what we do for our son's memory, and in honour of everybody who had sepsis and survived it and those who lost someone. Why is it left to us? Let the people with the public relations companies, big staff and budgets and deep pockets behind them get it done. Six years down the line and we are still doing this. Hopefully, please God, something will come out of today.