Dr. Tony Holohan:

We have introduced HPV immunisation for boys this year.

Like many countries, we experienced a dip in the uptake of that vaccine for a variety of reasons, many relating to concerns that were expressed around vaccination. This has been one of the few countries that have been able to turn around some of the experience in terms of uptake of immunisation for girls, so that is good. The anecdotal evidence we have is that the uptake among boys is as good as the uptake currently is among girls. We will not know that for sure until we have hard data at the end of quarter 1 and we will be happy to come back and share it with the committee.