I have recognised from the start that unanimity on the issue of the use of drugs by optometrists would be very difficult to achieve. There are those who would wish to see a more restrictive approach and others who would wish to see a more liberal approach. However, I would hope that the Department's previous concessions and the proposed amendment, which I have just outlined, will enable a level of compromise, if not consensus, to be reached. Indeed, those representing optometrists were very clear in their correspondence that they were not talking about treatment, that they themselves were stopping short of treatment also. Therefore I feel I have got the balance correct in terms of how we have configured the Bill.