The Minister said that use of these drugs is allowed in England. There is a completely different system in that country for training optometrists, who have an extra intern year in hospital after training and a considerable amount of their training takes place in hospital. That does not happen here, although I am sure they are doing their job well. However, we are taking a dangerous shortcut in permitting the use of cyclopentolate because the only reason for it to be used is for the refraction of children's eyes in order that they can be prescribed glasses, which is not the case at present. I find it odd that the use of a drug which has more serious side-effects than atropine – as this reputable text book from which I quoted states – will be allowed, while the use of atropine will not.